Around the Si hour, the central army where Chen Xi was located successfully crossed the Anguli River and marched to the southeast for about half an hour, less than forty miles from Zhangjiakou Fort. Because he was worried about the advance of the army, he was criticized by the censor after returning to the court. Chen Xi had to order the troops to garrison on the spot.

When it was not yet clear, Chen Xi learned that Zhu Houzhao had rushed out of the narrow road north of Zhangjiakou Fort and quickly deviated from the direction. Now he was camping on the edge of the woods more than ten miles southeast of him. He only needed to lead the troops for a while to successfully join Zhu Houzhao in his army.

The news that Yun Liu brought later made Chen Xi's face dark, and it was obvious that something was out of his control.

"... The people around His Majesty revealed an amazing news. His Majesty was attacked by a tiger while hunting in the dense forest. A guard named Jiang Bin stepped forward and let His Majesty get into danger. However, this person was too reckless and almost injured His Majesty when shooting archery, so His Majesty decided not to reward or punish..."

Chen Xi was not too concerned about where Zhu Houzhao was camping to prepare for the reception. What he cared about was the news about Jiang Bin.

The sudden appearance of this situation was not what Jiang Bin did, but what happened was surprisingly similar to history. When time, place and even characters changed, there seemed to be a powerful repair force in the dark, pushing Jiang Bin to approach Zhu Houzhao and accomplish some terrible coincidence.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "I have experienced it once in Liu Jin's affairs. No matter how I suppress it, Liu Jin will eventually rise strongly. In the middle, the important officials of the court impeached the Eight Tigers, and Liu Jin was in power, etc., which is exactly the same as history. The previous Liu Jin was Qian Ning, and now it is Jiang Bin's turn."

"Sir, will we immediately set up the camp and go to meet with Your Majesty?" Yun Liu couldn't help but ask.

Yunliu didn't know what Jiang Bin did, she only knew that she was an Jinyiwei, and at most she knew that she was the commander of the Weizhou Guard who followed Li Fei. However, now those border generals would have a very ordinary future as long as they did not follow Chen Xi to fight.

So in Yunliu's opinion, Chen Xi cared more about the question of when to meet the saint.

Chen Xidao: "There is no preparation for the ceremonial ceremony there, and it is futile to go there early... I send someone to report to His Majesty and tell us that we will go to the audience soon, and at the same time give us some preparation time there."

"Yes, sir."

Yun Liu quickly bowed, but she felt a little strange. If Chen Xi was thinking about this issue just now, there would be no need to delay such a long time.

Chen Xi's face was gloomy, and he thought for a while and said, "If Jiang Bin doesn't have the chance to meet the saint, use some means to make him completely unable to meet the saint... You can arrange the matter now."

"grown ups!?"

Yun Liu was very surprised and could not understand that Chen Xi would use unconventional means to a small person.

Chen Xi waved his hand: "Go quickly, you don't need to question whether this matter is correct. Just follow my instructions and do things... Of course, if Your Majesty has received him, the order will be invalid. Let's wait and see what happened first."

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Chen Xi was indeed very annoyed because he had deep concerns about Jiang Bin.

"Jiang Bin is much scarier than Qian Ning and others. Although he is also a villain, he is an extremely villain who can understand the emperor's wishes. Liu Jin was killed in just a few years, but Jiang Bin has been in history for ten years because of his military position. If Zhu Houzhao had not died suddenly, perhaps this person would have endangered the BenQ in the future. It would be too dangerous. It would be better for me to act against the will of heaven and kill him, and it would be a complete failure."

Chen Xi looked into the distance, with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he was ready to fight against fate.

Although his rise was almost smooth, the powerful forces in history were met by him one after another. The previous few allowed him to easily resolve them, but then he would encounter huge resistance, that is, Zhu Houzhao had a group of slander ministers around him. These little people seemed insignificant, but they had the absolute trust of the emperor and knew better than him, a foreign minister, to cater to the emperor's preferences.

"Liu Jin's rise is to use him to suppress the deeply rooted civil servant group headed by Liu Jian in the court. Without Liu Jin's evildoer, Liu Jian and others could not be pulled down. My chances of promotion are slim and I have to surrender to others. Zhang Yuan and Qian Ning are all small people, not to worry about it. Their rise and prosperity are only temporary; only this Jiang Bin disrupted the court, first controlled the military power of the capital, and then controlled the channels for advice around His Majesty. Although he was not a prime minister, he actually sat in the original position of Liu Jin. In history, from cabinet ministers to court officials, he was almost controlled by him!"

Just as Shen Xi was thinking about something, Hu Songyue and others came over and asked when they would go to meet the saint.

"Sir, everything is ready."

Hu Songyue seemed very excited. Although all the soldiers had washed their armor in advance, they were seriously worn out due to the long-term battle, and there was no new armor to replace them. They looked not so glamorous in their clothes, and they looked more like rustic local guards.

Chen Xi glanced at the people, and although he was in the mood to pay attention, he still gave instructions to let them know what to do next.

Chen Xidao: "In another hour, we should be able to see the Lord... But so many of us cannot take them all to see the Lord, otherwise we may be accused of hitting the Lord and making misconduct. Now the imperial carriage is preparing to welcome the matter. We may have to hunt on the grassland later today. Because we have to follow the carriage, we cannot use firearms. Find more people with strong bow shooting ability... Now it is time to test our cold weapon skills."

"Cold weapons? Haha, aren't bows and arrows cold? It's so interesting to speak." Hu Songyue said with a heartless smile.

Liu Xuze seemed a little restrained and asked, "Sir, if you go to meet the saint, who will stay here?"

Chen Xi looked at Liu Xu and others with earnest eyes and knew that these people wanted to meet the saint, after all, this was the matter of Guangzong Yaozu. Chen Xi said: "General Xiao Wang will not go. Let Ma Ang stay. You will accompany me to meet the saint!"

In Shen Xi's opinion, Jiang Bin has already appeared, and Ma Ang will temporarily block his chance to meet the emperor. He is afraid that many historical events will happen again, including Ma Lian's incident.

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Just when Shen Xi arranged for Yun Liu to use some unconventional means to eliminate potential threats, Jiang Bin suddenly received a summoning from Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly remembered that there was a warrior who sacrificed his life to save his horse. He was dressed in the tent and was a little bored when he came out to wait for Chen Xi, so he asked someone to call Jiang Bin.

Xiao Tiaozi said, "Your Majesty, Lord Shen's troops are less than ten miles away from here. Have you ever seen Lord Shen first and then met Guard Jiang?"

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "Are you just sending someone to inform Mr. Chen to come here? I have a lot of time, so I have seen someone first; and, even if Mr. Chen comes when I see Jiang Bin, at most, I can take Jiang Bin to see Mr. Chen. They are all people I can trust, so it should be fine, right?"

Xiao Tiaozi was confused. At this time, he only vaguely knew that Jiang Bin and Zhu Houzhao had worked together to hunt tigers, and were not very clear about other things. It was because he had been busy after seeing Zhu Houzhao and had no time to inquire about these things.

As the guards went to communicate, Jiang Bin was brought over soon.

Compared with his bravery and fearlessness before, Jiang Bin's shoulders were almost shrunk toward his neck, as if he was a little man who could not even raise his head.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the temporary seat in front of the tent, looked at the person, and the more he looked at him, he became more and more pleasant, and there was a smile on his face. After Jiang Bin arrived, he knelt down and kowtowed, leaned on the ground, unable to say anything. For Jiang Bin, it was not that he was timid, but that he was too excited.

After so many years of hard work, I finally had the opportunity to meet the saint and then take the throne. I had just hesitated to choose who to be loyal to between the emperor and the concubine Li. I was summoned by the emperor in a blink of an eye and guarded the clouds and saw the moon bright.

Zhu Houzhao said: "Jiang Bin isn't it? Very good, are you the assistant commander of Weizhou Guard? "

"Yes, your Majesty."

Jiang Bin was very excited, his voice trembled slightly when he spoke, but the volume was very loud, and he did not have the humility and fear of ordinary people facing the holy time.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "I remember that the position of Commander of the Guard seems to be a fourth-rank military officer, and the level should be not low. I originally wanted you to be a Jinyiwei hundred household, but that was just a sixth-rank military officer. It seems that he has treated you a bit unfairly... Well, why don't you be the original Commander of the Guard of the Guard and do things around me first? Do you think you are okay?"

As the emperor, Zhu Houzhao had no idea about the Ming Dynasty's official position system and did not know what position should a deputy commander of the guard should arrange for the Jinyiwei.

In this case, he was not busy promoting Jiang Bin. He felt that since there were already many people in the Jinyiwei, it would be better to reuse foreign ministers like Jiang Bin, especially after he personally arrived at Xuanfu and saw that the border troops were brave and good at fighting, he had this idea long ago.

When facing the tiger, the Jinyiwei shrank, which made Zhu Houzhao very dissatisfied. He had already thought of changing the guards around him. Although it was just a general idea, it seemed that he had found another way to solve the problem, which was to use some loyal foreign ministers to protect him.

Although Jiang Bin did not receive an official promotion, he was still very excited and kowtowed: "It is a great blessing for villains to do things for His Majesty. villains must devote themselves to their entire lives until they die!"

Zhu Houzhao laughed: "When others say this, I just think they are farts and anyone can tell clichés, but you, Jiang Bin, are different. When the tiger attacked me just now, although I didn't need your help at that time, you can rush out to protect the car without fear of life and death, which is always much better than some people who only talk normally!"

Zhu Houzhao's words were simply a mockery of Qian Ning and other close ministers who did not respond in time when he encountered danger.

Although Zhu Houzhao did not blame him in person, he could clearly distinguish between the truth. No matter how many reasons Qian Ning and others had, such as fear of disturbing the tiger was not good for the emperor, or fear of shooting the emperor by mistake, it could not cover up the fact that no one rushed up to block the tiger with his body as soon as possible.

The reason you are looking for is nothing more than saying that you dare not do anything in the distance, but if you are like Jiang Bin, just dismount and rush forward, not to mention whether the tiger is alarmed. At least you can block the danger for me. If the tiger wants to bite people, it will bite you first. I can be safe and sound.

There is no harm without comparison!

If Jiang Bin did not stand up and show, even Zhu Houzhao himself might think that Qian Ning and others did nothing wrong. But now it has proved that there was a better choice at that time. If you don’t do it, it would be a waste of my trust in you. When I encounter a critical moment of danger, you all shrank, but you are a place where you have never been to me and the generals stood up to save the Lord.

Jiang Bin kowtowed: "At that time, the villain only knew how to protect the emperor and offended the sage. I hope Your Majesty will forgive him."

Zhu Houzhao smiled and nodded and said, "Your original intention is to save me, how could I blame you? But your archery skills are really not good. Don't shoot arrows randomly when you encounter this situation next time, otherwise if you are really unfortunate enough to hit me, you will probably lose your life... Hahaha!"

It was originally a very serious topic, but Zhu Houzhao smiled and said it. Obviously, the emperor, as he, didn't take Jiang Bin's previous arrow seriously.

The main reason is that Zhu Houzhao is very sensible, just like he trusted Zhang Yuan. At the critical moment when the house collapsed, except Zhang Yuan, he ran out and had no intention of saving the car. He just wanted to escape by himself. Even if he rushed into the building and could not save people, I would feel that you are loyal.

Unconsciously, Zhu Houzhao thought of Zhang Yuan.

Although Zhang Yuan was personally sued by Zhu Houzhao, he knew in his heart that Zhang Yuan was just a scapegoat, and he was the one who made a big mistake. It was him, the emperor's blind command, that caused Shen Xi to be trapped on the north bank of Yuxi River, and Zhang Yuan was just doing things according to his orders.

Zhu Houzhao had no intention of forgiveing ​​Zhang Yuan before, but with Shen Xi winning step by step, and Jiang Bin rushed out to protect his master today, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but miss the former Eastern Palace attendant who was not very capable but had a "loyalty to the emperor".

"I won't mention this in advance."

Zhu Houzhao pondered for a moment and said, "I don't plan to promote your official position, but I will give you some rewards first, as your loyal reward... Come and send the gifts I have prepared."

Jiang Bin didn't expect there would be rewards. He originally thought that being able to stay by Zhu Houzhao's side was the best grace.

Then Xiaotie held the tray out, and Zhu Houzhao personally uncovered the cloth on the tray, revealing the objects inside, but it was found that it was Yu Ruyi and some small ornaments, all of which were gold, silver and jade.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "These are originally gifts I have given to Mr. Shen, the Minister of War. Because there is nothing to give you around you, I will give you a part of it first. Anyway, there will be rewards from Shangshu Shen."

"Thank you for your kindness. I am so determined to serve you to the death." Jiang Bin felt flattered and continued to kneel down and kowtow.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "It's great. In the future, you will be rewarded by your side. Get up and prepare to welcome Mr. Shen."

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When Shen Xi was summoned by Zhu Houzhao and took people to the camp where the Luan Carrie was, he learned from Yunliu that Zhu Houzhao rewarded Jiang Bin.

Yun Liu said: "Your Majesty took some items that were originally given to the Lord to the man. Now he is working with His Majesty. It is very... difficult to complete the things entrusted by the Lord."

Shen Xi's face was gloomy and he rode on a horse. At this time, less than three miles away from the camp, he could vaguely see the military personnel in charge of the reception. He said immediately: "God's will, it's hard to force many things, let it go."

Yun Liu asked curiously: "Sir, this person is just a trivial little person. Even if he is allowed to approach His Majesty, he can still get rid of him afterwards."

Chen Xi shook his head: "If you get rid of this person before Your Majesty respects you, it will be a trivial matter, but if you have to take action after Your Majesty makes a decision, it will be like deliberately opposing Your Majesty. Do you want me to have a conflict with Your Majesty?"

Yun Liu was very surprised. He didn't expect that Chen Xi would kill a hero who had saved the chariot. In her opinion, Jiang Bin is just a poor little character. Even if he was by Zhu Houzhao, he would not be able to get the status of Qian Ning or Xiao Taozi and others. Even those people Chen Xi didn't say they wanted to kill them. Now facing Jiang Bin, Chen Xi actually used some unconventional means.

Chen Xi rarely did anything to kill political enemies before, and even facing Jiang Liwei, Chen Xi did not make such extraordinary actions.

At this moment, a team came across from the other side, and Chen Xi saw Wang Shouren from afar.

He knew that he could not continue talking about Jiang Bin. With a wave of his hand, Yun Liu rode his horse in another direction, avoiding Wang Shouren's team.

Then Chen Xi rode over and Wang Shouren greeted Chen Xi from afar.

"Shangshu Chen, it's been a long time since he was gone."

After the two approached, Wang Shouren did not dismount and bowed directly on the horse's back.

Chen Xi smiled and nodded: "Did Your Majesty have any instructions to ask Brother Bo'an, you to convey it?"

Wang Shouren smiled and said, "Your Majesty is waiting in the camp ahead, and the army has prepared the welcome. Shangshu Chen will go to meet the saint next time. As for the others..."
To be continued...