Since the Liang family improved the relationship with Huaidong, when rebuilding the old city of Chongzhou, Lin Jian specially allocated a sum of silver for the repair of the old mansion of Hailing Palace, called the northwest corner of the old city of Chongzhou, this house looks a bit of a royal atmosphere.

In the early morning, Yuan Yan just asked the maid to accompany her out of the house, when she heard the chaotic sound of "click" horses' hooves stepping on the street stones, and looked up to see a long team of horses coming from the east gate.

Yuan Yan didn't know the news that Lin Lian had returned to Chongzhou, and asked Shi Gaoqiang, the head of the palace, who was standing in front of the steps and waiting, and Zuo Guitang, the chamberlain, only to know that Lin Lian had returned to Chongzhou for two days, and made an appointment to come over today to ask the Queen Mother and King Hailing for peace.

I haven't seen each other for another year, and Yuan Yan knows that she should avoid it, but her heart is beating like a deer, and she stands under the eaves with a red face and doesn't leave......

"Princess Yuan Yan is going out?" Lin Tie got off the horse and saw Yuan Yan and the two maids standing in front of the eaves, and asked with a smile.

Yuan Yan's eyes rolled, and she replied slyly: "I just came back and was about to enter the mansion, looking at the majestic horse team, it turned out to be the prince of Pengcheng County!" ”

Gao Qiang and Zuo Guitang were inconvenient to expose the lies of Princess Yuan Yan, and told Lin Jian that the Queen Mother and King Hailing were waiting in Dongyuan, and hugged Lin Jian and Yuan Yan to go inside.

The crisis caused by Xie Chaozhong's expedition, even in Huaidong, is only a limited number of people who understand that Hailing Palace's palace is separated from Jiangning itself, and they can't feel the urgency of the situation after entering August.

Xie Chaozhong led his troops out of Yuling Pass, coordinated with Huaidong and Jiangzhou, and carried out a three-front attack on the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

Even if Xie Chaozhong led the troops to go on the expedition and caused Chen Xiyan, Zuo Chengmu, Lin Xuwen and others to have fierce disputes with Yu Xinyuan, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and others above the temple, in the eyes of outsiders, this is more like a party struggle and the clash between factions within the Wu Party - the Empress Dowager Liang, who has been immersed in the power struggle for half her life, cannot see how much crisis Xie Chaozhong has in leading the troops to the expedition itself, what she sees is the open and secret struggle between many factions around Xie Chaozhong's expedition.

When the dynasty did not kneel and salute, Lin Tie entered the room, saluted the Queen Mother and Hailing King Yuan Jianhai, sat down and said: "Weichen Lin Tie is supervising the battle in Xuzhou, Rong Ma is handsome, and he has failed to take care of the living life of the Queen Mother and the prince, it is really a sin, and he will go to Zhedong to supervise the war the next day, and he came here to ask Hou, what are the instructions of the Queen Mother and the prince, I will do everything in Chongzhou?" ”

"Lin Qing has a heart, the mourning family lives in Chongzhou, there is nothing unpleasant...... "The queen mother's eyes are not good, she can only vaguely see the shadow of Lin Jian sitting in front of her, she trembled and reached out to pull Miao Shuo who was standing beside her, and said, "Peng Chenggong has recently added a linzi, and the mourning family has nothing to show their hands, and they have prepared a small toy as a congratulatory gift, you can quickly give it to Pengcheng Gong......"

Miao Shuo put the lacquer plate on the table, uncovered the silk cloth, it was a crystal clear jade cicada, Lin Lian thanked him: "Thank you Empress Dowager for rewarding ......"

Yuan Jianhai, the king of Hailing, was much more embarrassed, and gave a long-lived and hundred-year-old silver lock as a congratulatory gift, and he still took the silver that Huaidong had allocated to the Hailing Palace, and asked the silversmith to build it.

Yuan Jianhai escaped from the chaotic army and went south, from Qingzhou to Chongzhou, and even if he had any belongings, he also gave them to the governor of the palace, Shi Gaoqiang, and other officials.

If it weren't for the Liang family's improvement of relations with Huaidong, Huaidong would have allocated extra money to improve the life of the palace, Yuan Jianhai would not even be able to wear silk clothes.

"Lin Tie is going to Zhedong to supervise the war, what does the prince have to warn Lin Tie before leaving?" Lin Jian asked.

Yuan Jianhai was stunned for a moment, he thought that Lin Jian came over just to greet him routinely, but he didn't expect him to ask about the battle on the southern front!

When the Queen Mother Liang heard this, her wrinkled hands like goosebumps also trembled, and she stopped there in a daze.

"Lin Qing is a good soldier, the head of the world, what does my master want to say to warn Lin Qing, I am afraid that I will laugh off my big teeth for the world. Speaking of using soldiers, this king still has to ask Lin Qing for advice. Yuan Jianhai said with a smile, he didn't understand why Lin Jian had such an abrupt question, he just responded perfunctorily.

Since the city of Jinan was broken, Yuan Jianhai had a bumpy fate, and he actually experienced much more disasters than Emperor Yongxing. After Yuan Jianhai moved to Hailing, he was actually under house arrest, and he got along with his aunt Empress Liang every day.

"The prince is really polite, Lin Bin's ability to be a three-legged cat is just a matter of luck," Lin Tie said, "I won't take it out and offer it ugly." ”

"Lin Qing is worried about Xie Chaozhong's leading troops?" The Queen Mother asked beside her.

"Some, indeed." Lin Jian said quietly.

"The strength is strong, and the strength is weak......" Yuan Jianhai saw that his aunt also pulled the topic on this, thinking that she might have ulterior motives, and said something that Lin Tie liked to hear on the topic, Lin Xuwen held a resolute opposition on behalf of Huaidong on the matter of Xie Chaozhong's leading troops, and Yuan Jianhai was clear - in Yuan Jianhai's view, the reason why Emperor Yongxing was determined to let Xie Chaozhong lead the troops was also to urgently feel the threat of Huaidong.

Of course, there are some things that will not be said directly to Lin Bin, and Yuan Jianhai just picks some big words that should be Lin Bin.

After talking about it for more than half an hour, Lin Jian said goodbye, and when he left, he said: "Recently, Chongzhou has been out frequently, in order to worry about the safety of the palace, I specially asked the military secretary to send additional people to be responsible for the peripheral defense of the palace, and please don't think the queen mother and the prince are ...... strange."

Hearing this, Yuan Jianhai was stunned again, Chongzhou is under the rule of Lin Bin, although it is not possible to talk about the road, but the security is far better than elsewhere, that is, Yuan Yan often takes the maid to walk in the market, where is there any frequent appearance? Yuan Jianhai subconsciously thought that Lin Jian should strengthen the monitoring of the palace.

After Lin Jian left, he sent Changshi Gaoqiang away, and Yuan Jianhai complained and said: "I think we haven't done it thoroughly enough to be a prisoner, and the palace has sent more people......

"Lin Lian's greetings today are abnormal!" Since Lin was bound, the Empress Dowager Liang's brows have been furrowed, and she asked Miao Shuo beside her, "Did Peng Chenggong always look at Jianhai just now?" ”

"There was indeed a moment." Miao Shuo replied, asking the Queen Mother such a question, and a thought also popped up in his mind: Huaidong was the king of Ning, and naturally he could also change the king of Lu, but this idea was too scary, so that he didn't dare to say it.

"It shouldn't be like this!" The Queen Mother Liang shook her head and said to herself, but things were a little strange, so that the doubts in her heart could not be exhausted.

"Jianhai, what do you think of Xie Chaozhong's leading of the troops in your heart?" The Empress Dowager Liang asked King Hailing again.

"Huaidong takes the bandit girl as a concubine, and collects the Huaiyang army, the weight of authority has overwhelmed the world, and Yuan Jianwu is eager to set up a royal army, which is also fateful, but after all, he is too impatient." After the Ninglu dispute, Yuan Jianhai was always under house arrest, and he never had the slightest good impression of Emperor Yongxing.

"Well, that's the reason, Chen Xiyan is at least still an old minister who can be relied on, Wang Xueshan and his ilk are already people who tend to be inflammatory, and they were not subservient to Gu Wuchen back then, how can they be relied on at this time?" Empress Dowager Liang said, "If you want to plan for state affairs, you need to think long-term, and you can't be anxious - first let Yue Lengqiu gain a firm foothold in Jiangzhou, wait for the destruction of the luxury family, recover Jiangxi, and then summon Yue Lengqiu to enter the court as the prime minister, and drive the Huaidong soldiers and horses to the northern line to fight with Yan Lu, and the authority can be slowly recovered." If you are too eager, none of Yue Lengqiu and Dong Yuan can stand firm and compete with Huaidong, and they will force Huaidong to jump over the wall in a hurry, which is really not the blessing of the Yuan family! ”

"What the Queen Mother said is very true, but it's a pity that Yuan Jianwu can't hear this painstaking and kind words!" Yuan Jianhai gritted his teeth and said.

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Leaving the Hailing Palace, Lin Lian slouched on horseback and returned to the new city.

Visiting the Empress Dowager Liang and King Hailing is also a temptation; Strengthening the defense of the Hailing Palace, and after Lin Jian went to Chongzhou, Qin Chengzu was directly responsible for supervising the Hailing Palace, which was also preparing for the worst.

Lin Jian didn't have the luxury of expecting Yuan Jianhai to be grateful to him, he only needed Yuan Jianhai to know and forbear, even if he wanted to act in a play in the future, he had to cooperate with Yuan Jianhai to succeed.

"Maybe we should fight Dongyang County from Shengzhou!" Lin Jian said to Zhou Pu beside him.

"Hitting Jin'an Mansion has the advantage of hitting Jin'an Mansion, and hitting Dongyang County has the benefit of hitting Dongyang County," Zhou Pu said, "If adults have a headache, I think it will be possible to draw lots." ”

"Your idea is really ranciful," Lin Jian laughed and said, "But if you really want to make this decision, you really can't guess our bottom by telling Yuwenzhuang!" Fighting a war is no different than a mystery. However, if we fight like this, we can only have a 50% chance of hitting the right, this estimate is too low, and I don't ...... to say it."

"Compared with headaches, you have to ban alcohol when you go to Zhedong," Zhou Pu said, "I have a headache and wait for someone's house to drink!" ”

"You, after all, it's better to find a mother-in-law to give you hot wine and eat lively," Lin Jian said, "Look at me, I will have four children in a blink of an eye, and it will be very lively when I go back to the house." It's just a hateful gathering of less and more separation, Xin'er and Zhengjun are strangers to me, you hurry up and find another mother-in-law to give birth to, and we can still be in-laws in the future......"

"Well, it's a lot more troublesome than drinking." Zhou Pu smiled, he had two sons, but they both died when they were young, and they did not survive, when he was a horse thief in Huaishan, his mother-in-law also died early, and Zhou Pu has been stealing freely since then, and he did not remarry.

Although Zhou Pu said that he was the same generation as Qin Chengzu and Fu Qinghe, he was the youngest of his generation, he was brave when he was young, and he fought with his father and brother when he was twelve, and he was not yet forty years old this year.

At that time, Zhou Pu and they ambushed Chen Hansan, and there were only more than 40 brothers left, but the family was well hidden, and they were not hunted and killed by the government, and they all moved to Changshan Island afterwards; Over the years, he has already washed away the identity of the rogue, and they all went to Chongzhou to settle down, and it was Fu Qinghe who also moved his clansmen to Chongzhou.

Qin Chengzu's two sons died in the war, but they were accompanied by their old wives and succeeded their nephews, but Zhou Pu was still alone.

Seeing that Zhou Pu was pushing with wine, Lin Lian laughed, compared to worrying about the war and the treacherous power struggle, he still cared about this kind of thing to make people feel relaxed - Lin Lian smiled: "But whether you are happy or not, when this war is over, I will designate you to find a mother-in-law, and I will now ask Li Shuyi to build you a house on the edge of Beiyuan, and our two families will live next to each other......"

Zhou Pu acted as a dormitory guard, and his life was naturally next to the forest, so as to deal with all kinds of emergencies at any time, and now he has no fixed residence in Chongzhou, and when he is on duty, he will be mixed with the school below.

Zhou Pu said with a smile: "Speaking of mother-in-law, just now Princess Yuanyan put on her face and said nonsense, she was clearly going out to go out, looking at the adult, she turned her head and accompanied the adult to go inside, why didn't the adult poke her?" ”

“…… Alas! Lin Jian shook his head and sighed, and said softly, "Who told her to be born in the emperor's family!" "I thought that Yuan Yan is seventeen years old this year, it is very rare for a seventeen-year-old woman of the clan to be unmarried, and Yuan Yan's unpopularity is related to the Empress Dowager Liang, not to mention that Emperor Yongxing is not willing to think of this group of people in Hailing Mansion at all, and besides, which of the powerful families in Jiangning City is willing to marry Yuan Yan?

The innocent and lovely girl back then coincided with the image she saw today, Lin Jian thought to himself: Maybe Hailing Wangfu has always been in such a situation, Yuan Yan will live more freely, right? It's just that these words can't be asked to her face.

Thinking of this, Lin Lian was very excited and said to Zhou Pu: "Yes, I will go to Zhedong tomorrow, and I will set up a table in the house tonight to invite you to come over for a drink, so as to save you a headache about where to go to drink." ”