Chapter 117 – The Kyoto Idler

In the spring, I planted a lot of corn, and in the fall I can harvest a lot? Perhaps in the eyes of many, it was only natural to reap what one sows, and to reap what one sows, and from cause comes effect, and it was best to work hard to make up for one’s mistakes and then reap some rewards. However, after Fan Xian came to Kyoto from Tanyu State, he has sold his life for the Qing Dynasty court many times, and worked for the welfare of the people many times. Although he is not a person of great benevolence and righteousness, he has planted a lot of blessings either automatically or consciously, but it is just a pity that in the fall of the 10th year of the Qingli calendar, nothing of the blessings have been born out.

All the official position was taken, all the power was collected, all care about the relatives have become a hostage in disguise, he became a white body, became a can only listen to the song in Kyoto, stroll around the moon building of the rich and noble idlers.

No one has reported any injustice for him, no one dares to plead with His Majesty on his behalf, all the officials and citizens are just watching this scene very plainly, and even look a little frankly.

Giving favors without repaying them? Did Fan Xian have this level of spirituality? Who knows, but in the eyes of the people, little Lord Fan …… no, little lord, no, Fan Xian, since the fall, has played the role of this rich and noble idler perfectly, spending his days just strolling through the streets and alleys of Kyoto, taking a dip in the Moon Embracing House, teasing the children in the mansion, gossiping with the women of the house, and reading the new novels from Tanya Bookstore. Newly released novels.

The Tanyu Bookstore across the street is still open, and the doctors from the Imperial Hospital are practicing medicine in the private sector instead of Fan Ruo Ruo, I don’t know if this is the condition that the woman with the ice and snow in the palace put forward to His Majesty, anyway, Ms. Fan has been staying in the deep palace, and Fan Xian can’t go into the palace to see her, so he only changed his initial idea and asked his wife to go into the palace many times to have a look.

After more than a month of peace and quiet, the Fan residence was so quiet that it was about to be forgotten by the people of Kyoto, and Fan Xian was so silent that he was about to disappear from people’s conversations.

However, there was one place where Fan Xian could not be forgotten, and that was the Imperial College, because although His Majesty’s decree had taken away all of Fan Xian’s official positions, he had been given the position of an instructor at the Imperial College. About twenty days ago, perhaps because he was too bored to be a rich and noble idler in his residence, Fan Xian finally earned himself up from the gentle land and began to attend classes at the Imperial College.

The ancient tree-lined Imperial College was as quiet as usual. The news of Fan Xian’s coming to the Imperial College for classes galvanized the students of the Imperial College, and in the open space in front of the Pure Heart Pond, hundreds of people could often be seen gathered together, listening with great interest.

Fan Xian’s habit was to give lectures to these students at the stone steps in front of the Pure Heart Pond. Because there were so many students who came to listen to him, the Imperial College couldn’t arrange for him to come over, so they had to listen to his hocus-pocus and set up the classroom between heaven and earth. Some people can’t help but think that perhaps Fan Xian just wanted to take advantage of the continuous fall rain to be able to spend less time talking.

The content of the class is in fact very simple, mainly is the Northern Qi great scholar Mr. Zhuang Mo Han, his life’s work of compilation of those son of the history of the scriptures, the South Qing Imperial College with a few years of hard work, in the Tanya Book Bureau of the strong support, has long been the carriage of books combed clear, Fan Xian for these books are also more familiar with the above allusion to speak, but also do not need to be afraid of the stage.

Of course, Fan Xian’s lectures are different, basically every time he arranges a few teachers to talk in front of the clear heart pool, and only at the end does he personally go on the battlefield and debate with the students under the steps, as for the content of the debate, due to some great disrespect, so it has not been spread to the outside of the Imperial College.

Although Fan Xian is nothing now, at least in the Imperial College, in the hearts of these young students, is still a very great figure, at least some privileged characters.

Although I understand the reasoning that the teacher must be famous, but where in the world is there such a thing as a righteous battle? It’s nothing more than an excuse.”

“My Daqing male division’s sword points to the world, naturally it’s for the purpose of relieving the ten thousand people from hanging …… upside down,” that student brought a dozen or so fellow students and followed Fan Xian’s ass to catch up, saying something very unconvincingly.

Today’s topic is about the founding of the Wei dynasty, with more down-to-earth words, it is the two sides in the analysis of the justness of the war, but this problem is the most Fan Xian can not say, also think that there are not a few people under the sky can say clear problems.

Fan Xian got on the carriage and left the Imperial College, no longer paying attention to the indignant students behind him. The carriage walked on the streets of Kyoto for a few moments, and then escaped from the bustle in the quiet of the Imperial College, and returned to the autumn scenery. He subconsciously pulled open the curtains and looked at the street scene outside the car with a smile, but how could not hide the touch of melancholy between his eyebrows.

After a month of being a rich and noble idler, this is just a superficial phenomenon, just want to make an appearance to the court, to the palace to see, in Fan Xian’s heart, has been filled with a completely opposite flame with his surface calm and peaceful, just this flame was suppressed by him extremely well.

And is also forced to suppress, because the current situation still does not let him see any opportunity to take advantage of. Since returning to Kyoto, Fan Xian had never returned to the Supervisory Yuan, especially after banishing all the members of the Qiyan team from the capital, and even contacting one place had become extremely difficult. But this does not mean that Fan Xian does not have other sources of information, he knows very well, only used a month’s time, the emperor’s old man has already in the speech Bingyun strong assistance, successfully in the Supervisory Yuan most of the uncertainty of the security factor are suppressed, and the replacement of the blood, is also in the work of the methodical, just to see which day, to be able to really clean up.

And the news coming from Jiangnan side is not so wonderful. All these signs and symptoms were the source of Fan Xian’s worries, and he realized that he still underestimated the control and power of the imperial power in a feudal society, and even the Supervisory Court, which Chen Pingping and his own masters had painstakingly operated for decades, was now moving towards submission under the might of the imperial power.

Fan Xian frowned, in fact, regarding the problem between him and the emperor’s old man, it seemed to be in the Supervisory Academy, it seemed to be in the inner treasury, it seemed to be in Kyoto, but in reality, it was in the world. All of Qing’s court officials, folk wise men, and even including Grand Maester Hu to even Yan Bingyun, they did not understand this, and so they did not understand why His Majesty the Emperor would dispose of Fan Xian in such a way, both excepting all of Fan Xian’s official powers, yet allowing him to live in Kyoto in such a dashing manner, still retaining his influence in the shadows.

Fan Xian’s current state was one of immortality, and only he and His Imperial Highness understood what this state was due to.

If they were to deal with Fan Xian alone, His Majesty the Emperor was far superior to him, and would not even need to blow his brains out to knock him to the dust and stomp on him again, so that he would never be able to turn around. But the problem was that outside of Kyoto, and even outside of the borders of Qing, Fan Xian’s influence in the shadows was so strong as to be terrifying, and even with His Majesty’s self-confidence and pride, it was impossible for him to take it lightly.

Therefore, His Majesty allowed Fan Xian to stay in Kyoto without dying, and then slowly and steadily chipped away at Fan Xian’s influence outside of Kyoto, while at the same time making sure to cut off Fan Xian’s unseen hands that reached outside of the country.

This was a process whereby quantitative changes would lead to qualitative changes, and His Majesty would not really kill Fan Xian until he had eliminated his influence to the point where the Qing court could take the risk, because even if Fan Xian died, Eastern Yi and Western Liang would still be in chaos, and His Majesty did not want to see that.

And if His Majesty was truly able to control these issues perfectly, then what mattered whether Fan Xian was dead or alive?

The carriage arrived at the Moon Embracing Building in a very familiar manner, and Fan Xian got out of the carriage, put his hands behind his back, entered the building, and walked directly towards the manor house at the back by the Thin Lake, not even glancing at the figure at the street corner behind him.

That person who was watching Fan Xian, was a bitter cultivator, who knows, in the dark how many other bitter cultivators were watching him, the problem was that bitter cultivators could not get close to women, when Fan Xian went into the Moon Embracing Building, they couldn’t also follow.

Passing through the slightly cool breeze of the lake, Fan Xian walked into the small courtyard specially reserved for himself, looking at the increasingly flirtatious and clear-cut brothel owner in front of him, he smiled and said, “What’s the new tune to listen to today?”

Shi Qing’er covered her mouth with a smile and said, “Young master doesn’t write poems nowadays, so where can I get a good tune to listen to your ears?”

Several years had passed since that year when Fan Xian had copied the building, but this woman named Shi Qing’er did not show any signs of aging, and Fan Xian narrowed his eyes at her, smiled, and did not say anything else.

In fact, there is no need for the eyes of the inner court to keep an eye on her, everyone in Kyoto knows that nowadays little Lord Fan has long become a half-abandoned rich and noble idler, and his greatest pleasure in his spare time is to come to find the girls in the Moonlight Building.

Although he has no official power now, he still has money, and no one knows how much gold and silver is hidden inside Fan’s house, but at least on the surface, the Moonlight House in Fan’s house has already been strong along with the power of Qing Dynasty, and under the escort of the Supervisory Yuan in these years, it has swallowed up most of the top-quality houses under the sun, and under the rules and regulations made by Fan Xian, the Moonlight House has been opened all over the world. Under the rules and regulations set by Fan Xian, the Moonlight House had opened all over the world, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it had already unified the youth restaurant industry.

The nominal proprietors of Moonlight House, Shi Hanyanli and Sang Wen, are still developing their business in Dongyi City, and have already extended their hands to the capital of Northern Qi, everything is going smoothly, wherever they are, they are all famous figures.

Of course, it was clear that behind them stood Fan Xian.

Fan Xian was lying on top of the soft couch, comfortably accepting the massage from the two girls, his eyes closed, but his mind was working fast. After all, the Moonlight Tower was an industry, and the court was not in a position to get too mixed up, and the palace did not want to slash all of Fan’s face, which was why Fan Xian was left with such a cozy place to live. What comforted him was that it was obvious that the people of this era had, after all, underestimated the utility that greenhouses could play in terms of intelligence.

A few years ago, the two boys, Fan Si Zhe and the Third Prince, who were lawless and made a mess of a business, had now become one of Fan Xian’s bottom cards.

“Su Wenmao was dismissed, what excuse did the court use?” After the courtyard was quiet, Fan Xian asked with his eyes slightly lowered. Su Wenmao, as Fan Xian’s direct confidant and an official of the court, was unable to leave his post without authorization, so he had to wait for the court to strike. Not long ago, the decree went directly to the three major workshops in northern Fujian to invite Su Wenmao back to the capital, which was originally an extremely secretive matter, but because of the existence of the moon building, Fan Xian knew about this matter earlier than most of the people in Kyoto.

Because he had already been mentally prepared, Fan Xian was not surprised or angry, he was only worried about whether the people sent by Qinian’s team to northern Fujian had given a clear explanation to Su Wenmao. He believed that Su Wenmao, the cheerful second croupier, would not be foolish enough to confront the imperial court head-on, but he was worried that the time was too short for Su Wenmao to have the means to arrange enough hands and feet in the inner treasury.

The inner treasury is Fan Xian’s second root, the inner treasury transit division has been accepted by his majesty, but Fan Xian will not let this root directly by the palace to chop off, to chop must also be chopped by Fan Xian to chop off, and a chop off, will let the Qing dynasty and the countryside into the bone marrow of the pain.

Thinking of this, thinking of the ten villages in the north of Dongyi City that were heavily guarded, thinking of the three major workshops and the palace that each had a copy of the inner treasury process as well as the one in his own head, the corners of Fan Xian’s lips flashed a smile, but the hand in his sleeve slowly clenched into a fist.

On the Western Liang Road side, Deng Ziyue had managed to escape from the imperial court’s dense net, but he just didn’t know where he was hiding at the moment, but since there was no news of Deng Ziyue’s death in the intelligence, Fan Xian felt extremely comforted. It was just that the four members over there were now bound to be in a situation where they were leaderless, and it was not known whether they would be able to resist the pressure from the Kyoto Main Court of the Supervisory Yuan. Hong Yiqing received instructions to first enter the grasslands to look for that person, and then come back to contact the forces within Dingzhou Qingzhou City, hoping that everything would be in time ……

“Gong Dian has already arrived in Dingzhou.” Shi Qing’er said with a low brow.

Fan Xian was silent, he really did not expect the emperor’s old man’s reaction was so fast, even the forbidden army commander directly transferred to Dingzhou pressure, Li Hongcheng, although in Dingzhou leading the army for several years, but after all, the foundation is still shallow, Gong Dian is from the old man in Dingzhou army, seniority and merit here, Hongcheng is afraid that the hard resistance can’t be, and will only be forced to be recalled to Kyoto.

If you want to find a way to let Hongcheng can still stay in Dingzhou, hold that part of the military strength belonging to him, you must let Xiliang grab the first chaos.

Fan Xian frowned tightly, realizing that all events had long since gone out of his control, and only hoped that the first batch of people sent to the grasslands would be able to contact Hu Ge in a hurry, so that those Hu people on the grasslands would be able to launch a wave of attacks against the clock, in this early winter season.

Things were too chaotic and too mixed, how could Fan Xian ever really be idle? He glanced at Shi Qing’er somewhat helplessly and asked, “How is the bribery case at the Ministry of Public Works being investigated?”

“Lord Yang ……” Shi Qing’er glanced at him worriedly and said, “The case was finalized yesterday, and the Da Lisi will come out with an explicit verdict paper after lunch today.”

Although she was the second prince’s person back then, but under Fan Xian’s coercion all these years, she had long since been unable to have second thoughts, not to mention that as a woman from a green house, she knew that the young man in front of her was actually a little vaguely different from all the powerful nobles in Kyoto, she wanted to be the second Sang Wen, but didn’t want to be the second Yuan Meng, and so she watched as the left and right arms of young Lord Fan were just one by one, only to be torn away by the imperial court in this way Torn down in blood, she couldn’t help but be a little terrified and scared as well.

Fan Xian glanced at the light of day on the lake and said after a moment of silence, “It’s late afternoon, then I’ll go pick him up.”

The case of Yang Wanli’s bribery in the Ministry of Industry’s He Du Division, from being denounced, to the case paper from the Ministry of Justice into the Da Lisi, it only took a total of ten days, this kind of efficiency, put in the history of the Qing Dynasty, it’s also enough to be marveled at, those who don’t know the inside story, I’m afraid to think that his majesty’s will of clearing up the officials’ rule has suddenly become a real sword in the ten years of the Qing Dynasty.

And the real people in the officialdom look at this big scene, in fact, all can not help but some sighs and cold, because they all know what kind of person Yang Wanli, this is a year in the great river long dike stayed up for two whole years in the capable officials dry officials clean officials.

Yang Wanli is one of the four sons of the Fan Gate, when the small Fan Lord privately raised silver, like running water through the hands of the Governor of the River Yamen entered the dike, all through his hands, if he really want to greedy silver, how can not be guilty of what is described as a few thousand snowflake silver …… put the fat meat does not eat, but want to go to eat Ministry of Public Works Yamen in those bribes?

What’s more, all the officials are clear, the Fan door is extremely strict, treating the next very wide, and not to mention the Supervisory Yuan that several times the salary of the court officials, then said that the three adults serving in various places in Qing, in fact, year after year are subjected to the Fan House of the provision of the District a few thousand taels of silver, is not a difficult task, who all know that the Fan is the world’s premier God of Wealth, Yang Wanli, how could he be greedy for a bribe?

But it is also because of clear these, so the officials are more aware of, Yang Wanli on trial, is only the meaning of the palace. In the door under the middle secretary of the He Da Da Shi’s arrangement, the trial of the program proceeded very quickly, today the Da Lisi will be sentenced. According to some insiders, if it wasn’t for Grand Maester Hu’s pity for Yang Wanli’s talent and innocence, and his intervention, I’m afraid that Lord Yang’s fate would have been even worse.

Fan Xian stood alone in front of the Da Lisi government office, lonely, waiting for the result of the judgment inside. The magistrates outside the Da Lisi’s hall had already recognized his identity and were so frightened that they had already sent word to the lord inside, but they had to fearfully stop in front of Fan Xian.

Fortunately, Fan Xian didn’t get angry, he just waited in silence for Yang Wanli to come out. The nearest yamen to the Da Lisi was one of the Supervisory Courts, and those little brats from one of the yams couldn’t help but stand out of the yamen entrance when they realized that the dean was here, forcibly suppressing their excitement as they watched the scene.

A place is Fan Xian’s lair, the rectification of the year really out of a number of loyal subordinates, otherwise the day of the big trouble in the court, there will not be a large number of a place of officials escorted him out of the city. Now although Mu Tie has long been kicked out of the Supervisory Yuan, but these officials still Fan Xian as the dean, and simply refused to accept that character called Yan Bingyun. However, as the regulations of the Qing Law Courts were strict, these officials could only look at the lonely Fan Xian from afar for moral support.

Fan Xian did not turn around to look at those boys, still looking at the Da Lisi’s courthouse, but with a comforting smile on his face.

A powerful sound rang out in the courtroom, and before long, Song Shiren, the former official prosecutor of the Supervisory Yuan and a rich mouth in Kyoto, walked out of the Da Lisi courtroom in silence, with no joy on his face, but rather a somewhat shadowy look.

Since Fan Xian had been stripped of his post as president of the Supervisory Yuan, Song Shiren, a supernumerary, did not want to stay in the Supervisory Yuan any longer, and instead approached Fan Xian directly. Fan Xian did not think that this rich mouth actually also has such a knowing side, slightly surprised, naturally, he will be placed down, coincided with the court began to clean up the Fan system, in order to the face of the heavenly dynasty, naturally, can not engage in the tactics of the secret service …… everything to honor the Chongqing law, so Fan Xian sent him out, at least for his own subordinates, these Seek a relatively fair ending.

Looking at Song Shiren’s look, Fan Xian’s eyes narrowed slightly and said, “I can’t go into the Yamen now, that’s why I’m asking you to …… case files we’ve all seen, there’s no reason why we can’t win.”

“Knowing that it is the court arranged witness evidence, but no one can do anything about it.” Song Shiren sighed, looked at Fan Xian and said, “Back then, when your honor was fixing the Ming family in Jiangnan, didn’t you also use this method?”

Fan Xian’s heart trembled slightly, and his voice pressed into a chilling line as he said sternly, “I don’t expect to exonerate Wanli either, it’s just that the fight I’m talking about is at least …… I have to see others at this point!”

“Prisoner for three years.” Song Shiren hung his head in shame and said, nowadays, when he works for little Lord Fan, it is like fighting against the whole court with his own strength, how to fight this lawsuit is also a loss.

“Where is the expression prisoner?” Fan Xian said in a slight rage, “Three thousand taels of silver, at most, is to flow three thousand miles, the Qing law says clearly, return the stolen silver can discuss the crime, how do you fight this lawsuit?”

Song Shiren want to speak and stop, said with a bitter smile: “Qing law is naturally written in this way, would have returned the stolen goods and fined silver to discuss the crime yesterday has been said, but today He Daoshi come to see the trial, but this one to erase, but also change the flow for the prisoner.”

“He Zongwei?” Fan Xian heard this familiar name and laughed instead of being angry, and after a long moment of silence, he fished out a silver ticket from his pocket, restrained his expression, and calmly said, “You go back in, give this silver ticket to the Secretary of the Da Lisi, and ask him how exactly he learned his Qing law. Is it for me to personally stand up to him and fight this lawsuit.”

Song Shiren took the silver ticket, looked at the number of 30,000 taels on it and was stunned, after a moment of silence, he clenched his teeth and stomped his feet, and went to the upper part of the government hall, he knew that this day Fan Xian made this show, he was really forced by the imperial court to have no way out, for the sake of Yang Wanli’s life and death, Fan Xian had to come out and sell this not so old face, and just look at the officials in the Da Lisi, just what will they think about it.

I don’t know what Song Shiren said after he went in, but it wasn’t long before one of the officials coughed softly, walked down the stone steps, and whispered in Fan Xian’s ear. Fan Xian didn’t answer, but just shook his head, and the official, with a helpless look on his face, walked back again.

Finally, Song Shiren helped Yang Wanli walk out of the Da Lisi Yamen. Fan Xian’s eyes narrowed, and he could see that Yang Wanli had been tortured in prison, and a dark fire welled up in his heart, but he took a deep breath, forced it down, and called out to a few subordinates to carry Yang Wanli onto the carriage.

Yang Wanli brushed past him, and this pair of teachers and students of extremely similar ages did not say anything, except that Yang Wanli’s eyes flashed with a trace of unwillingness and a trace of grief.

Fan Xian felt a little cold, he knew what Yang Wanli was grieving for, an official who only wanted to do something, but because of these things in the court and the palace, he had to bear the injustice that was not there at all, not to mention the loss of the official, not to mention being tortured, but the key is the reputation being tarnished, as a scholar, who can bear it?

Just as Fan Xian was about to leave, He Zongwei, a university scholar under the Central Committee of the Gate, accompanied by several officials, slowly walked out of the Da Lisi’s office. He Zongwei looked at Fan Xian and said after a moment of silence, “Mr. Fan is so elegant.”

Fan Xian did not even bother to look at this person. This attitude is the He Zongwei side of the several officials to make some anger, now the situation in Kyoto has long been different from the year, He Zongwei is the red, but Fan Xian has long been a white body, in front of the official asked but did not answer, out of order.

He Zongwei, however, did not have any emotional reaction, and asked, “This official is very curious, what exactly did you say to that adult earlier, the main secretary of the Da Lisi would suddenly change his mind.”

This was really a point that Grand Maester He was very curious about. He often entered the palace, of course he knew that between his majesty and this young lord Fan it was no longer difficult to mend the rift between the two sides, so nowadays he looked at Fan Xian and was not as scornful as he was back then, and today when he was ordered to come and listen to the trial, he had done his hand in the dark and made sure to make sure that Yang Wanli, one of the four sons of the Fan family, would no longer have a chance of getting out of the way, but he didn’t anticipate that originally, everything was as it was supposed to be, and then in the end, he had suddenly changed his mind.

Obviously the young man in front of the eyes has no longer the holy favor, and no official position in the body, why the officials in the Da Lisi was his sentence on the horror of the back? He Zongwei pondered bitterly, wondering what kind of magic Fan Xian had on him that made these officials not even listen to His Majesty’s hints.

Fan Xian turned back to him, gave him a cold look, and said, “I said to that lord, don’t force me to lash out.”

“You want to force me to freak out?” Fan Xian narrowed his eyes at He Zongwei’s slightly darkened face, and suddenly said with a slight smile, “Actually, I’m also curious to know what you can do to me for beating up a court official in the street.”

When these words came out, the officials around He Zongwei finally realized that Fan Xian’s power did not only lie in his official position and power, and bluffed so much that they took a step back, but He Zongwei still stood calmly in front of Fan Xian, sighed, and thought about the reason for this, and couldn’t help but feel a little bit of regret, in terms of official position and power, he might be able to hold down the other party, but in the face of venomous and irrational killing and attacking, he could never be as wild as this man. could not be as arrogant as this person in general.

“Suzhou governor Cheng Jialin was cited as being intimate with prostitutes and infestation, was asked to return to the capital to self-defense, probably in a few days, will come to the Da Lisi again.” He Zongwei said mildly, “It seems that you, the rich and noble idler of Kyoto, can’t really be idle.”

Fan Xian’s eyes were slightly lowered as he casually said, “You’re one of His Majesty’s dogs, so you have to be busy running around, but I won’t be.”

Hitting people without hitting their faces, bias as early as many years ago, Fan Xian had once hit He Zongwei’s face, and today, at the entrance of the Yamen, coldly calling He Zongwei a dog on the street, it was like hitting the other side’s face once again. Today’s He Zongwei is after all not the small imperial historian at the beginning, as the first class minister in the court, has his own face decency to be scrupulous, not to mention that at this time there are so many people watching, his slightly dark face gradually changed, said in a cold voice: “As a minister, naturally, he is one of his majesty’s dogs, in the view of this official, you are also one of his majesty’s dogs, isn’t it? ”

Grand Maester He thought that this sentence was a decent response, both saving his own decency and blocking the sentence back, as well as making it hard for Fan Xian to respond, but where did he think that Fan Xian laughed while listening to this sentence.

“If I am a dog, what is Your Majesty?” Fan Xian mockingly looked at him and said with a cold smile, turning around and getting into the carriage.

He Zongwei’s face stared, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, just as he didn’t understand why Fan Xian could influence the Da Lisi today, because no matter how much the other party had been relegated, but the other …… party was still his majesty’s flesh and blood, and for that reason alone, the ten thousand people of the world couldn’t be compared to him. He Zongwei’s heart gave birth to a strong gloomy, feel that life is always so unfair.

In Kyoto, Fan Xian couldn’t be idle, and it was very difficult to meet the combination of punches from His Majesty, but he only cared about resisting, but didn’t have any ability or method to counterattack at all. On the real battlefield between him and the Emperor’s son, however, a thrilling drama was being staged, which had no audience and was not recorded in the history books, but was truly staged, because it was in these places that Fan Xian could be strong enough to make the most resolute counterattacks against the chess pieces laid down by the Emperor’s son.

Inside the city of Dingzhou on the Western Liang Road, there was no telling what kind of entanglement Li Hongcheng and Gong Dian, who had come to take over his post, were engaged in before. And on the road leading from Nanqing to Dongyi City, the armies of the two sides were facing each other, with no one willing to make a slight concession. The three thousand officers and soldiers from the Yanjing camp’s winter training had been blocked alive at the border, not daring to take a step in, and this situation had been stalemated for three days.

“His Majesty has decreed that we should enter Dongyi City to assist the Grand Hall of Justice in quelling the chaos, but as a result, the Grand Hall of Justice directly blocked us back with a military order, saying that having his 10,000 elite soldiers would be enough.” Yanjing camp commander Wang Zhikun looked at his cronies in the tent camp and laughed coldly, “Since those 10,000 elite troops are in Xiaoliang country to quell the chaos, who can stop our soldiers from going straight into Dongyi?”

When he said this, Wang Zhikun’s anger finally erupted. This was supposed to be a test run from the imperial side in the direction of Dongyi City, originally everything was going according to plan, if the Grand Prince did not wield his troops to stop them, he would use these 3,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard, the Yanjing camp had prepared a total of 20,000 people, ready to move in along the road. Who knew that these three thousand elite soldiers were actually blocked at the national border, unable to enter one step.

He pointed at the generals below and rebuked them, “One thousand! A thousand men have scared your guts out of you? The opponents are also my Daqing’s soldiers, could it be that they really dare to make a move against the army sent by the imperial court?”

“That’s the Black Riders.” A general said with a trembling voice, “Chen Pingping is dead, and Little Lord Fan is under house arrest in Kyoto, who knows if these murderous black riders …… will really pull out their swords.”

The corners of Wang Zhikun s eyes twitched slightly for a moment, but he did not curse anything more angrily. Regarding this covert military operation, it was nominally a winter training directive from the Privy Council that he had received, but in reality it was a secret decree of His Majesty that he had received from the palace.

As previously stated, this was a test, this was a test from that His Majesty the Emperor sitting on the dragon chair, to his eldest son who was far away on the side of Dongyi City.

The news of the big event in Kyoto had already reached Yanjing City, and Wang Zhikun realized that the original day when the young lord led the black riders to raid straight into Kyoto was to go and save old dean Chen. This Yanjing marshal did not know why Chen old dean would suddenly be cleansed by his majesty, although his heart also sighed a little, but as a soldier of Qing, he must comply with his majesty’s will.

Shortly after the incident in Kyoto, the Grand Prince suddenly sent an expedited military report, stating that with the rising and falling of the rebel armies in the Eastern Barbarians, and the frequent wars, he was unable to get away and return to the capital for a while, which blocked any channel for Kyoto to call him back to the capital in advance.

Wang Zhikun is very clear that the great prince does not want to go back to the capital …… so called general outside, the king order is not, it is clear that this has successfully controlled 10,000 elites of the great prince, because of that thing in the Kyoto, has already departed from the heart with his majesty.

Once the attitude of the great prince came out, his majesty did not get angry, but very normally sent a decree to Dongyi City, saying that he would send Yanjing army party into Dongyi City to help the great prince to calm down the chaos, and also the great prince, as Wang Zhikun expected, forcefully refused the Yanjing battalion’s request to send out the troops, and …… the team that was used to stop the Yanjing army in these two days was also really not the great prince’s people, the court can not even find an excuse.

“Black cavalry ah ……” Wang Lükun slightly frowned, thinking about this number of people although not many, but the combat strength of extraordinarily strong cavalry, very naturally thought of that idle man in Kyoto.