"We grew up together since childhood. He stayed at my house all year round and considered himself the third eldest son of the Meng family." Meng Tang explained while recalling all the past events.

In his memory, Zhao Xiang did not have any airs of the royal family, and had a straightforward and open personality. Although he deliberately tried to please him, he was not arrogant, otherwise he would not be friends with such a person.

When the two of them became true friends, King Yunxiang treated him more like a brother, half intimate and casual. Even when he was fifteen years old, a woman in the palace forcibly took away his virginity from Zhao Xiang and wanted to marry him.

He, he didn't dare to tell anyone, he only told the truth to this "second brother" and begged him to settle things.

This is a little secret between the two "brothers", and it is also a sign of mutual protection and trust.

However, what he never expected was that Zhao Xiang, whom he thought he knew very well, the King Yunxiang who was driven out of the capital and wandered around like a beggar, would become the second person after his father, Meng Chaomu, to take Zhao Ying away.

The person who took down the throne.

Liu Chang's letter stated that King Yunxiang returned to the capital secretly. On the day he returned to the palace, the emperor ordered the Gyeonggi Prefecture to dispatch the guards of the capital to surround the palace of Yunxiang King, but this order was not implemented.

At this point, Liu Chang discovered that since unknown time, most of the nobles and officials in the capital had already joined Zhao Xi's sect, and had been secretly recruiting other people to submit.

The emperor ordered Zhao Xi to enter the palace for an audience. He originally thought that it would be a disaster to go there, but due to the pressure from the old nobles at the palace gate, Zhao Ying kept Zhao Xi until late at night and had to release him from the palace again.

Liu Chang described that it was freezing cold that day, and there were many older generations among the old gentry, but everyone seemed to have made an agreement, and no one took a step back, even if they risked their lives to let Zhao Xi out of the palace. New

From this day on, Zhao Xiang responded to every call in the capital, and he also had full control over the 50,000-strong defense force in the capital.

There were only 5,000 Imperial Guards left in the palace to guard the emperor. It was said that the emperor had already issued an order to send troops from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital to rescue him, but he didn't know if it was too late.

Finally, Liu Chang asked him what the northwest king's plan was. If he wanted to compete, the time had come.

When Liu Chang wrote this letter, Meng Chaomu was not yet dead, and the prince Meng Juan had not approached the capital.

"The last time I saw this King Yunxiang... I didn't see that he had such a palace." Shen Yuning handed the letter to Meng Tang: "How can it be possible to take over the officials of the capital for your own use? I'm afraid it can be done overnight.

The foreshadowing has been laid for a long time."

"I only know that he has a high spirit," the man sighed softly: "Back then in the capital, he was not taken seriously by Zhao Ying, but whenever Zhao Ying was displeased, he would drag him into the palace to enforce rules and scold him for being idle and doing nothing. He

After leaving the palace, he became more and more dissolute and unmotivated. But he told me privately that he did not want to live such a life anymore and be with me.

It is better to be an ordinary citizen eating chaffy vegetables than to be a glamorous caged bird in the capital. Later, my father rebelled from the capital and he was implicated. I thought he would not escape death. I also begged my brother to pay more attention to his condition.

, to save his life when necessary. Unexpectedly, the emperor just expelled him from the capital, which actually fulfilled him in disguise."

Shen Yuning doesn't think so. If he really has no intention of power and is unwilling to compete for fame and fortune, then why does he need to contact so many officials secretly?

Seeing that she was silent, Meng Tang naturally knew what she was thinking, and lifted the cloak on her shoulders: "Go to the study first, it's cold outside."

"good."

Watching the sect master hug his wife's shoulders and leave, the disciples of the Yue Yue Sect in front of the concierge sighed: The sect master and his wife are indeed as loving as the legend says!

When Shen Yuning arrived in the study, she studied ink for Meng Tang and watched him write a reply to Liu Chang. However, while he was picking up the pen, his hand paused in the air.

"What's wrong?"

The man put down his pen: "It suddenly occurred to me that when I was in the capital, there were people who had wanted to support Zhao Xiang in power, but he hid his cleverness and exposed his clumsiness. Those people saw that he did not have this ambition and stopped forcing it. In the past few years,

He seems to be traveling around to avoid being pursued by the court, but in fact he should be trying to win people's hearts. As far as I know, he has been to several places and met some officials who have retired and returned to their hometowns."

"What can an official who has retired and returned to his hometown do for him?"

"Official circles and the nobility have always paid attention to the distinction between distance and kinship, as well as superiority and inferiority, but at the same time they also respected teachers the most. These officials seem to have left the capital, but their descendants are still looking for jobs in the capital, let alone

As for the followers and students they recruited with their own power during their official career, this is what Zhao Xiang needs."

Shen Yuning understood clearly and carefully recalled the Zhao Bi she saw last time. Although he was a bit careless and careless, she could see that he was a sober person.

Good grasp.

Meng Tang slowly tapped his fingers on the table: "It seems that he wants to be the emperor, not just for a day or two."

"He's not wrong. Today is a twilight and violent time, the people are in dire straits, and those who have nothing to do with each other want to revolt and compete for Ziwei. As a blood relative of the Zhao family and the emperor's nephew, what's the point of wanting to ascend the throne?

No?"

"Then do you think I should write this letter or not?"

Shen Yuning put down the ink ink in her hand and looked at him intently: "Do you want to write?"

The man tilted his head slightly, with a playful expression on his face: "I'm asking you, why did you do it the other way around?"

"Okay, let me ask you another way, Meng Tang, do you want to be the emperor?"

The man raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't expect her to ask such a straightforward question.

Shen Yuning was a little nervous when she asked this question. She didn't know what answer she wanted to hear. She opened her mouth and said again: "Do you want to support King Kong to ascend the throne and treat him like a puppet, or do you want to let this Meng family do it? "Third

"Zhao Xiang became the emperor?"

"Where's Meng Juan? That brother of mine is waiting outside the capital with tens of thousands of troops."

"He? He is nothing," Shen Yuning said very straightforwardly: "A person who is unpopular cannot win the world. He can even commit patricide. How can he hold on to that position? Even if everyone spits on him, he will be nailed.

Dead!"

"Oh? Spit Star?"

"It's just a mouthful of spit Xingzi!"

Meng Tang couldn't help but chuckle when he saw her lively pouting and her eyebrows furrowing, as if Meng Juan was really in front of her.

Shen Yuning seemed to have seen something rare, and couldn't help but hold his face and said: "The sect leader is smiling at least. Seeing you depressed these past few days, the disciples of the Yueyue Sect don't dare to express their anger."

"Okay, the hands you just polished may not be clean, so you're rubbing me again."

"Who said that? My hands are not dirty."

Leader Shen retracted his hand and looked at the black ash on his face without changing his expression.

"Keep it up, I'll write a letter to Liu Chang."

"Okay!" Shen Yuning picked up the ink stick again, grinding it in the inkstone while watching him write.

His letter was written very concisely, explaining the affairs of Junbei in just a few digits, and asking him and the Liu family to choose the opportunity to act. In such troubled times, they should no longer be blindly loyal to Zhao Ying. The changes in the world were already unstoppable.

"Liu family, are you a female minister?" Shen Yuning asked.

"How to distinguish the theory of loyal female officials? In the eyes of the capital, the northwest king is a female official, and the Liu family is naturally loyal, but in the eyes of the people in Junbei, it is the other way around. The Liu family has been officials for hundreds of years, and the relationship between the nine internal and external clans is

It’s complicated and involves hundreds of people, which is why the Liu family has to protect itself.”

Shen Yuning nodded. Although she didn't know the Liu family very well now, she also understood the meaning of the word "involuntary".

Whether the Liu family did everything they could to serve the court, or they separated to avoid being implicated by the Meng family, as the saying goes, if a person doesn't do it for himself, heaven will destroy him. From their point of view, they just want to survive.

"As for King Kong," the man asked her, "if he wants to ascend to that position, I can help him do it. This is my promise to you."

"If there is a more suitable candidate than him, I think he will not make this choice again."

"Um……"

Meng Tang's handwritten letter was taken away by a messenger. In order to avoid attracting the attention of soldiers and bandits on the road, the disciples of the Yueyue Sect specially provided him with a new set of cotton-padded clothes.

Although the Yueyue Sect has a bad reputation in the world, not many people dare to mess with the Yueyue Sect, so wearing this kind of clothes can be regarded as a sign.

Watching the messenger gallop away on horseback, and the horses' hooves echoed across the long street, Shen Yu murmured with his hands in his sleeves: "The city defense camp in the middle of the capital should recognize the clothes of the Yuezong Sect. We fought with them last time we passed by the capital.

one game

.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the disciples of the Yue Yue Sect looked at her with horrified expressions on their faces.

Shen Yuning said: "You didn't remind him to change his clothes before entering Beijing, right?"

Several heads shook rapidly.

Leader Shen said helplessly: "Who is going to chase him?"

"Subordinate, go right away!"

Then, another fast horse shot out, and Alliance Leader Shen let out a long sigh. So, when recruiting people, the Yuezong Sect really has to test their brains first...

Meng Tang went out early the next morning before dawn. Shen Yuning got up and was bored. She called Bai Yu and Xiao Baozi, and took three or five people to walk on the street.

Yinfeng was not around, and Songyue was taking care of Little Baozi throughout the whole process, but whether it was an illusion or not, Shen Yuning always felt that Yinfeng would always pay more attention to her.

After eating and drinking for a day, he figured that Meng Tang should come back and headed back home. So, after seeing her sect leader, Song Yue's expression became more and more difficult to describe.

Shen Yuning glanced at Song Yue, and Song Yue quickly moved away seriously, as if looking at the furnishings in the room, but the furnishings had obviously never been moved.

She was talking to Meng Tang, and Song Yue was whispering to his brother Yin Feng. As a result, the two brothers looked at her even more strangely.

When leaving Meng Tang's place, Shen Yuning asked Bai Yu for confirmation as she walked: "Do you think the way Yin Feng Song Yue looks at me is strange, as if there is some secret that cannot be told, and my face is dirty?"

Last time, I deliberately rubbed the face of a certain sect leader while I was studying ink. Everyone in the Yue Yue Sect also looked like they wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it. This made Leader Shen very proud.
Chapter completed!