This period of time was a torment for King Wu, especially after learning that Li Mu Shu was missing, especially when a group of masters also disappeared together.
The frequent moves of King Jin made the people of King Wu’s family restless. Sometimes they could clearly see that their opponents were constantly making moves, but they did not make any moves, which made them appear extremely passive psychologically.
Although several veterans tried their best to persuade King Wu to calm down, and King Wu also knew that he should calm down, but the timing was too delicate.
According to careful calculation, the changes happened after the old **** Han Baishan was sentenced to death last time.
Even some confidants and veterans of King Wu’s line had to admit that the originally quiet King Jin suddenly made a series of actions, probably because they 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 why King Jin can’t, and it is not surprising that some special news can’t be done.
And King Jin actually has a very big potential advantage, that is, Concubine Ren, and King Wu’s biological mother, Queen Zhang, has passed away long ago. It is impossible to say that Concubine Ren may be the source of information for King Jin.
In this case, putting aside everything else, the timeliness of information became extremely important. King Wu spread out a large number of people and spent a lot of energy to inquire about various information. Many of his close confidants, including some capable civil and military personnel, also came together. He sent people to keep an eye on every move in Prince Jin’s palace, but only dared to keep an eye on the outside for news inside the palace.
During this period, one or two masters from the Jin Palace were also captured. Under the secret torture by King Wu’s men, they still refused to say any valuable information.
September 23rd was another cloudy day.
The King of Wu was sitting in the hall, wiping the blade of his sword with a white cloth. Beside him were four confidants who were both civilized and martial. They came in a hurry. Their buttocks were not yet hot from sitting. There was a private banquet at the palace tonight.
A servant of the royal family slowly walked into the hall.
“Your Highness, the man was recruited. He said that the King of Jin gave Anjia a sum of silver and asked them to disguise themselves as ordinary people and live in the city for a period of time. If they were not recalled before, they would leave the capital separately with the money…”
Wu Wang frowned, raised his head and asked.
“What are you going to do when you leave the capital?”
The servant looked at King Wu’s face and hesitated.
“Leave the capital, go back to your hometown, start a family and start a business, and no longer involve yourself in court matters…”
“Huh?”
King Wu moved his hands and looked around. The other four people also frowned.
“Then does he know about Li Mu Shu?”
“I asked, but Li Mu Shu disappeared even after that, and the man didn’t know.”
An old minister next to him thought for a long time and said carefully.
“Your Highness, it seems that King Jin is dismissing his subordinates because he knows that he has no chance of being crowned king?”
As soon as the old minister finished speaking, a military minister immediately retorted.
“No! Didn’t you listen to 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 that we don’t know.”
“That’s right. If you don’t do it sooner or later, it will happen after the Double Ninth Festival. If you admit defeat, why didn’t you take any action before? Why do you still want to recall it? Why don’t you come to ask His Highness the King of Wu?”
These words made the old minister of Shangshu Province unable to refute, he just frowned and remained silent.
“Your Highness, I have checked the armory of the Forbidden Army in the city. Except for some damage, there is no lack of ordnance.”
After hearing this, the veteran minister of Shangshu Province immediately stared at the military minister who spoke.
“Who asked you to do this?”
“It’s me.”
King Wu answered first.
“Master Zhang, don’t worry too much. Master Zhou’s brother is the General Staff of the Forbidden Army in Gyeonggi Prefecture. If you want to find out the ordnance, you can just read it casually. In the evening, when you go back to the mansion, you can have a drink and talk with your family. No one will know.”
The veteran opened his mouth but said nothing more.
“His Royal Highness Li Mu Shu has appeared!”
Another royal servant hurried back from outside, and King Wu stood up immediately.
“Where?”
Li Mu Shu is an old fox. With his intelligence, he could have been a high official. However, in order to help the King of Jin, he has been willing to accompany him as a prince’s young master. Li Mu Shu’s movements can almost be understood as belonging to the King of Jin. movement.
The visitor naturally did not dare to hide anything and immediately reported the news.
“It appeared outside Prince Jin’s palace about an hour ago. It was an ordinary carriage without anyone accompanying it. It had already entered the palace. Not long after, Prince Jin and Li Mu Shu entered the palace together in the carriage. It seems that he was summoned to the palace.”
Hearing the news, the two warriors behind stood up.
“Any other news?”
King Wu clenched his fists in his sleeves and asked again in a low voice.
“No more for now!”
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 waiting for the others to leave, King Wu turned to look at the four people in the hall. Without saying anything, he returned to sit at the top…
On the carriage entering the palace, the King of Jin wrote a letter of alliance.
“Teacher, why are you back again?”
Li Mu Shu looked relaxed.
“My family has been entrusted to me, so I came back halfway. I, Li Mu Shu, am old and don’t have long to live. What are you afraid of? Why not accompany His Highness the King of Jin to see the results.”
Prince Jin just grabbed his teacher’s hand and said no more.
The carriage entered the palace, and when they went to the royal study room to meet the emperor, Li Mushu and King Jin went in together. This was the emperor’s request.
After the Long Case, the old emperor, who was rarely in good spirits, was writing something himself.
The King of Jin and Li Mu Shu looked at each other after entering and bowed together.
“I am Li Mu Shu. My son is Yang Hao.”
“Meet Your Majesty! Meet Father!”
The old emperor raised his head and looked at them, expressionless for a while. When the backs of the latter two began to feel hot, he just laughed “haha”, said nothing, and continued writing on the table.
When I finished writing, I looked at Eunuch Li beside me. The latter got the signal and took the jade seal and pressed it on the yellow silk.
“Hao’er, you are really working **** your love scenes these days!”
Prince Jin maintained his bowing posture, and his palms became sweaty when he heard these words.
“My son, my son…”
“Okay, take it.”
Emperor Yuande signaled to the old **** beside him, who took the scrolled yellow silk from 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, and carefully accepted the imperial edict.
I don’t know if the above content makes him disappointed or happy.
“What? Not happy?”
“I dare not… 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.
The King of Jin and Li Mu Shu looked at each other, took a deep breath, and saluted again.
“My son, I resign! I resign!”
Seeing King Jin and Li Mu Shu retreat, Emperor Yuan De suppressed his smile and threw the wolf hair in his hand to the ground.
There was a “pop~” sound, and the sound of the ivory sleeve hitting the ground was more like hitting the heart of the old **** next to him, making the latter’s heart beat wildly.
“Li Sizhe.”
“The old slave is here!”
The old emperor turned to look at the old eunuch, and then looked at the pen he had thrown away on the ground.
“Haoer is really good to Li Mushu, and the latter is loyal to Haoer and is willing to die… Do you think that Haoer is working so hard, is he too heartless?”
“Old, I don’t dare to make any unreasonable comments! Your Majesty has his heart cut off!”
“Hehe…hehehehe…yes, there is a self-disconnection. It was also this self-disconnection at the beginning, which broke Gu’s immortal fate. It seems that the self-disconnection of the widow may not be the right one…”
The old **** was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground.
“Your Majesty! I never meant this, I never meant this!”
The old emperor looked at the old **** on the ground and said coldly.
“Get up.”
“Yes!”
“Quietly spreading the news, saying that the imperial decree just given to King Jin contains the content of the throne announcement. By the way, after those people finish passing on the news, let’s send them on their way.”
“Yes!”
The old **** swallowed, followed the order and left.
At this moment, King Jin and Li Mu Shu were walking in the palace, holding the imperial edict in their hands.
Since his father allowed him to smile, Prince Jin had a joyful smile on his face during the whole journey back, or he was really smiling in his heart.
Although the content of the imperial edict was to pass on the throne to Queen Wu and protect his life, the words he recalled from his father after leaving the imperial study room were a bit special, and could even save King Jin from other arrangements…
In Prince Wu’s Mansion, King Wu Yang Qing was extremely concerned about King Jin’s entry into the palace, but he did not panic.
In addition to the four ministers who were already at the house, a special guest was also on the way.
In the main hall of the palace, there are different opinions about Li Mu Shu and King Jin entering the palace. King Wu listened uneasily to a few people talking and refuting each other.
“Your Highness~Your Highness~”
An attendant came running from outside with a loud voice, and the voice subconsciously made everyone in the hall jump.
“Your Highness, urgent messages have been sent from several places in the palace!”
In this current situation, King Wu has very little contact with the palace’s eyes and ears, unless the matter is important to a certain extent.
King Wu immediately stood up and took a few pieces of paper to read.
The more he looked at it, the paler his face became. He didn’t speak for a long time after reading it. After the note was circulated to everyone, the hall became silent.
“Your Majesty, Your Highness, I only said that it is related to the succession of the throne…but, that may not mean…”
“Master Zhang… the third child came out of the royal study, smiling all the way out of the palace…”
Wang Wang clenched his fists, his nails dug into his palms, and looked at the garden outside the hall with unfocused eyes. He happened to see a servant leading a long-bearded old man with an immortal spirit in.
The old man entered the hall and found that King Wu and all the ministers made no sound. He felt a little scary for some reason, but he still saluted hurriedly.
“I, Du Changsheng, have met His Highness the King of Jin.”
This one is one of the few Celestial Masters left in the capital, and he is also a capable person recognized by many princes and nobles. Now that the emperor is no longer obsessed with immortality and elixirs, the Celestial Masters have been left out in the cold.
“Master Du Tian, I heard that you have the power of qi and can see people’s qi. Can you find the book www.zhaoshuyuan.com to find out the blessings and disasters?”
“Well…I can indeed see some things, but my little knowledge is not worth mentioning to a real immortal master, and the aura is ever-changing, and each person’s aura will be different at different times…”
Wang Wang, who was originally looking at the garden, turned to look at him.
“Can the Heavenly Master take a look at my aura?”
Du Changsheng subconsciously looked at King Wu, and with a little luck, he saw the gray mist in the purple air, which was dim and unclear, and alternated with the rhyme of thunder.
“His Highness seems to be in a panic at the moment, which makes His Highness Ziwei very angry…”
“Ziwei angry?”
“Yes, Ziwei Qi is the manifestation of the Qi of the Emperor Star. Those with this Qi have the destiny of an emperor!”
King Wu nodded.
“So has Master Du Tian met King Jin? How is his aura?”
“This…”
Du Changsheng looked at King Wu’s cold eyes, felt a chill in his heart, and opened his mouth.
“His Royal Highness King Jin is also a prince, and he is somewhat talented, but he is far less prosperous than His Highness King Wu!”
“Haha, really?”
Wang Wang smiled, turned around and walked back into the hall, picking up the sword on the table. This action made Du Changsheng at the hall door subconsciously step back.
Fortunately, when Du Changsheng saw King Wu, he just swept his hands, 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…”
Wang Wang turned around and looked at the sky outside the hall. He closed his eyes at first, then opened them again after taking two breaths. The chaotic and irritable thoughts in his heart also settled down, and he opened his mouth and gritted his teeth.
“Send dead soldiers from various prefectures to intercept and kill the King of Jin on the way!”
“At the same time, notify Zhang Jianying, the Southern Army, and the Beixuan Camp to prepare to raise troops… to force the palace!”