Academy.

Lai Cheng stood up and wanted to push the window open. He thought about the old dean's recent physical condition, then sat down again, sat for a while, and then stood up again and paced back and forth in the room.

"What the hell do you want to say?"

The old dean smiled and said, "The world's famous world is not afraid of the earth. What else do you have to say and dare not say?"

"gentlemen."

Lai Cheng looked at the old dean: "What exactly do you want to see when your Majesty?"

He used a word to read.

The old dean shrugged: "What does Your Majesty want to see? I can't see it because I'm not tall enough."

"But within Daning, the only one who can see what Your Majesty wants to see is you, Mr."

“It’s much worse.”

The old dean gestured: "Your Majesty is so tall, I stand on Your Majesty's shoulder and look into the distance, and I can't see where Your Majesty's eyes can see."

Lai Cheng sighed: "The atmosphere is very bad recently, very bad... Those old noble families were originally honest, but now they are becoming more and more active. His Majesty issued another order yesterday to demote the cold first-class marquis to the second-class marquis. Some people have already started to talk."

The old dean was still smiling, smiling a little coldly.

"gentlemen."

Lai Cheng was a little anxious: "I want to go when Chen Leng left Beijing. Sir, I don't allow me to go, and you don't go either. We all know that Chen Leng will say goodbye to Yingxin Building. In the whole building, except Lord Han and Lord Ye were all Lord Ye. As a result, Lord Han and Lord Ye were transferred out of Chang'an that day. One went to the grassland and the other went to the northern border, especially the Anbei Protectorate. His Majesty and the Cabinet have not disclosed a single word. There was no news from each department to prepare for the Anbei Protectorate. What can I prepare if I went there in such a hurry?"

The old dean shook his head and said nothing.

That day, outside the Yingxin Building, he and Lai Cheng sat in a carriage and watched Chen Leng leave Yingxin Building alone, and walked away along the street gradually. Chen Leng's back was blurred quickly. He seemed to be a little careless and careless about fame and fortune, but the old dean and Lai Chengdu could see how depressed the back was. What the child was most afraid of since childhood was that he was abandoned?

And he never abandoned the whole world.

Now, it seems that the whole world is going to abandon him.

"All civil and military officials in the court are watching you and me."

Lai Cheng was a little annoyed: "If you don't go, I won't go, those who want to go will not go. I don't believe this is your own thought. Why is Your Majesty?"

"It's my own idea."

The old dean shook his head: "No one abandoned him."

Lai Cheng's eyes widened slightly: "Then what are we doing?"

The old dean shook his head and said nothing.

Lai Cheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly couldn't help it. He turned around and strode, angrily.

Lai Cheng left, and the old dean let out a long sigh... He said to himself: "Your Majesty, when will you be a cold-hearted person? It's just that he must do this. Your Majesty has to look at it and take a closer look."

But the old dean was also puzzled, why did His Majesty suddenly want to take a look?

This is not an urgent matter, because the second prince is still young and His Majesty is not old yet. It is not time to change. Why is His Majesty anxious?

He firmly believed that Your Majesty was not a shameless person, so he did what he thought was right. Since Your Majesty wanted to see, he would help Your Majesty see. His discomfort was different from Lai Cheng's discomfort. Lai Cheng didn't understand why Your Majesty wanted to do this. The old dean's discomfort was why Your Majesty was anxious to do this?

So the old dean had a shadow in his heart, but he couldn't tell anyone casually.

Chen Leng has been leaving Chang'an City for half a month. In the past half month, His Majesty has issued a total of four decrees related to Shen Leng. Needless to say, the first decree was reduced to the first marquis and ordered to leave Beijing immediately. The second

The purpose was to transfer Han Huanzhi. The third purpose was to transfer Ye Liuyun. The civil and military officials in the court knew that the only two big men saw Chen Leng off that day. They were also transferred from Chang'an after seeing off their feet. His Majesty's heart suddenly became cold and hard. Many people had to guess how wrong Chen Leng had done?

The fourth decree was yesterday. His Majesty issued another order to punish Chen Leng because of the investigation of the Tingwei Mansion. The first marquis was demoted to the second marquis and fined three years of salary. All the properties that the Tianji Piaozi were preparing to be transferred to the Ministry of Revenue. The Tianji Piaozi was also fined a lot of silver, and the signal became stronger and stronger.

Si Maozhai.

It has been half a month since the second prince came every day, and His Majesty avoided him. The second prince knelt outside the door. When the emperor came back from the court, he had already knelt at the door until dark. After it was dark, he got up and walked to Zhenfei Palace for dinner, but he never mentioned the cold things and went to Simaozhai to kneel. He would come again after dawn. His stubbornness was exactly the same as the emperor.

When the emperor led his army to fight in the northern border, some of his subordinates' military achievements were falsely captured by descendants of nobles. The emperor and the old emperor had a quarrel in the East Warehouse, and the quarrel was very fierce. The next day, the emperor was dismissed from the fief of Yunxiao City, the fief of military power.

Liuyun will disappear, but the Yingxin Building is still there.

Most of the brothers from the Liuyun Society were sent to the northern border and left with Ye Liuyun. Black Eyes were transferred back to the palace to continue to be his deputy commander of the big guard. Every day, they sat on the steps at the door of his own residence in a daze, ignoring anyone's words, as if they had lost their souls.

The Liuyun Club Youth Hall no longer exists. Yu Baifa also followed Ye Liuyun to the northern border. The entire Chang'an City became a little turbulent in an instant. Fortunately, there was no Liuyun Club in the secret passage and no one dared to be too presumptuous.

However, what is worrying is that some old nobles who have complained over the years have begun to emerge. They have no real power in the military over the years. They have been suppressed by Liuyunhui when doing shameful business. After Liuyunhui, they have gradually become active. Some of the businesses that Liuyunhui originally controlled were bought by others, and the business on the dock has also begun to become chaotic.

This shouldn't have happened, but it just happened.

It was getting dark again. The second prince, who was kneeling outside the Simaozhai, looked at the sky, got up, turned around and walked out, staggering.

The emperor looked at his son outside the window and felt very distressed, but he endured it.

The first thing he wanted to see was accurate.

No one dared to speak for the cold, but the second prince came. He came every day. Except for the first day when he directly found the emperor and said, he knelt outside every day. Of course, the emperor understood his son's thoughts. On the first day, the second prince quarreled with the emperor for the first time in history. His face turned red. The emperor asked him to leave. From that day on, he had been kneeling outside the door and could not get up and stopped talking. He used this method to tell the emperor...I was not convinced.

In the palace of Zhenfei.

The emperor stepped into the palace gate, but he did not ask Dai Fangzhou to send someone to inform him in advance, so when he entered the door, Concubine Zhen and the second prince were both stunned. Concubine Zhen stood up to greet him. The second prince put down the bowls and chopsticks, walked outside to salute the emperor, then saluted to Concubine Zhen, and turned around and left.

Concubine Zhen looked at the emperor, and the emperor smiled bitterly.

"Why did Your Majesty suddenly come?"

Zhenfei asked.

"I came here to tell you that I have made a reservation to arrive in Taishan in three months, so you can prepare it."

"Prepare?"

Concubine Zhen didn't say anything this time, but nodded: "Okay."

So the emperor was shocked and faintly scared.

"you......"

The emperor wanted to speak but stopped. Concubine Zhen looked at the emperor, as if waiting for him to say something, but the emperor finally just shook his head and turned around and left.

Concubine Zhen looked at the emperor's back and her hands trembled slightly.

The night breeze is cool, and the emperor coughs a few times when he goes out

Sound, speed up your pace.

The emperor who returned to Simaozhai came in and sat down. He had not eaten dinner yet, but he was a little hungry but had no appetite. Seeing that the emperor looked a little bad, Dai Fangzhou quickly sent someone to pass on the imperial doctor in. Soon after, the imperial doctor arrived. The emperor continued to sit at the window in a daze, and the imperial doctor knelt there to check the emperor's pulse.

Dai Fangzhou was guarding the door. It was midsummer and it was finally cooler at night, but he felt cold and inexplicably.

When the imperial doctor went out, he told him that His Majesty must be a little depressed, so he asked Dai Fangzhou to watch a little, so that he would not make His Majesty angry anymore, and then went back to get medicine. Dai Fangzhou thought about who would make His Majesty angry, and he was afraid that it was only His Majesty himself.

Chang'an City, Willow Lane.

The innermost yard has a door open, but there are three or four young and strong men standing outside the door. The lights in the yard are very bright, and there should be many people, but the voices are very light.

"The situation is about to change."

The man sitting in the main seat has a noble status. His ancestor was once one of the founding dukes of Daning. However, his family's strength gradually declined. Now only four or five people have entered the officialdom in the entire family, and no one has reached the third rank. His name is Xu Shaoyan, and his ancestor Xu Ji, who is the second most important figure after Tang in terms of military merit. After the founding of the country, he was first named Duke of Lu, and later changed to Duke of Tang. Xu Ji was given the surname Li, but he was honored only for this generation.

Xu Shaoyan is only 36 years old this year, and he is the age when he wants to do things. However, His Majesty is different from the late emperor Li Chengyuan. When Li Chengyuan was in power, he deliberately used the old noble family to fight against Mu Zhaotong. The Xu family also made its mark again in those years. However, within a few years, the late emperor Li Chengyuan passed away and His Majesty now entered the Weiyang Palace. His Majesty now prefers young people from poor families rather than old nobles like them, so he just looked up and was suppressed by His Majesty again.

"Shen Leng, this person, has a pull to move his whole body."

Xu Shaoyan took a sip of tea: "I sent someone to inquire a while ago, and probably found out some things. Your Majesty meant that in recent years, those people from poor families were too powerful and did not know how to endure after gaining power, so they were inevitably a little domineering. You can think about it and understand that a group of guys from mud legs suddenly had power and status and would certainly be presumptuous, just like a group of poor people who were used to being poor suddenly had some money, and it was inevitable that they would buy this and that smell like they would buy this and that."

The group of people laughed, all with disdain.

"But we can't be too anxious, nor can we not be anxious."

Xu Shaoyan smiled and said, "If Shen Leng really falls down, it's not his own business. If Shen Leng falls down, the people from Shen Leng's faction will suffer. Han Huanzhi and Ye Liuyun have been transferred from Chang'an by His Majesty. This signal is actually very obvious, but we cannot be rashly... A few years ago, His Majesty promised to reuse us again, but His Majesty doesn't like the Prince. No matter how much he promises, it's useless now."

Xu Shaoyan said: "When Chen Leng falls, a large number of people will follow him. At that time, many positions will be empty in the army, and many positions will be empty in the court. I want to say that even Lai Cheng's seat is not so stable... and there is also Meng Chang'an, Dongjiang. As long as Chen Leng falls, this person will be destroyed."

Another man said, "But we cannot understand the holy will."

The person opposite nodded: "Your Majesty's thoughts are really hard to guess. If we do something now and anger your Majesty, it will be counterproductive."

"I know."

Xu Shaoyan pressed forward and said in a low voice: "But I also found out something... Your Majesty, your body doesn't seem to be very good."

Everyone's face changed in fear.

"So."

Xu Shaoyan raised his lips slightly: "Your Majesty is anxious to pave the way for His Highness the Second Prince. At this time, we have to test it."
Chapter completed!