Xu Hao and Zhu Zhanji chatted for a long time, and only God knows how much the young prince can listen to.

After returning home from the main hall, I went to Qianshoutang to visit the old lady, and the room was full of laughter, and the third wife, Liu, pulled Xiao Shi and spoke in a low voice.

The old lady is now full of children and grandchildren, sitting on the couch in good spirits, smiling and watching Ripples running around with Xu Ye and the daughter of sister-in-law Ye, Xu Song's son Xu Wei snuggled in the arms of his mother Yuan, staring curiously at his brothers and sisters.

Xu Hai's wife, Zhong Kegu, was also pregnant, and sat on the side with Mu Ningxue; Xu Cuiliu accompanied the second sister Xu Cuitao and the third sister Xu Cuiyun on the other side.

Liu whispered: "Jiang Er hid from the family to make a bitch outside to find a father-in-law, do everything, his mother went back to the room one day, and bumped into him holding a big girl in the quilt, Aunt Wang was afraid of being beaten and scolded by the master, so she didn't dare to speak up, and she was afraid that he would get sick for a while, so she thought about quickly marrying a daughter-in-law for him, so as to collect her heart." ”

Xiao said: "Whose daughter did you fall in love with?" ”

Liu said: "I don't care about this family matter, let Aunt Wang go to Zhang Luo by herself, and it's thankless to make no effort." She took a fancy to the only daughter of a rich family in the Tobu Lang, and she didn't have a son so she was reluctant to have a daughter, and she didn't realize that she was already in her twenties, and she was in a hurry to ask a matchmaker recently. ”

Xiao Shi said in surprise: "It must be that the rich family is rich, right?" If I say that I am not married at the age of 20, eighty percent of them have other hidden secrets. Besides, Jiang Er is only sixteen years old this year, and the age difference is too much. ”

"It's about six or seven years old. The matchmaker said that the rich lady was born with neat characters, gentle temperament, virtuous and filial piety. Liu's face was quite disapproving, such a good girl wants to be good-looking, wealthy, how can she not even have an in-law in her twenties? There must be a reason for it, probably it was the son of the concubine, and she was not in the mood to help think about it.

"He said that he was only looking for a blessed and good son-in-law. Needless to say, the dowry will be borne by the son-in-law for hundreds of thousands of furniture, real estate and land in the future. ”

Xiao Shi thought for a moment and said: "I'm probably afraid that I can't keep the family wealth if I find a rich son-in-law, and Jiang Er is a child of the Xu family and a concubine, so it is appropriate to inherit his rich family's property." ”

Liu pouted and said: "Jiang'er has a stubborn personality, Aunt Wang thinks that her daughter-in-law is older and can take care of him, anyway, in the future, the things of the rich family will be her mother's, and she is very willing to take out the private money to buy a dowry." She came over and asked me what I meant, and I warned her that she wouldn't listen. It's not. Yesterday I was in a hurry to hire Nacai, and I gave her a thousand taels of silver. ”

Here Mu Ningxue also talked about Xu Jiang's engagement, Xu Hao didn't take it seriously, he was thinking about building a school for the children, it happened that Xu Cuiliu and Xu Miaojin had recently lived together, and they went out together to the opposite Wei State Mansion.

On this day, the summer scenery blended, the weather was clear, and Xu Miaojin lived alone in an independent courtyard in the east of the Guogong Mansion.

In fact, the Xu family already has a family academy and hires learned elders in the clan to teach. But there are too many children in the clan, like Qingwen and Musk Yue, their nephews all come to study, and nearly 100 children are of mixed quality, and Xu Hao can't be strictly restrained. is to prepare to open a separate one.

Xu Miaojin was lying on the mat in the garden and reading a book of the West Chamber, which made Xu Cuiliu, who walked to the back silently, very surprised, the West Chamber was a banned book in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but I didn't expect my aunt, who had always been ice and jade, to read this book.

Xu Cuiliu glanced at Xu Hao, who was standing aside. said with a smile: "What a nephrite warm fragrance is full of arms, Liu Ruan enters the rooftop, and dares to love my aunt and thinks of spring." ”

Xu Miaojin didn't know that Xu Hao was also here. Raised his head and scolded with a smile in the words in the book: "You are half-pushed there, and I am shocked here." ”

Xu Cuiliu blushed and smiled: "Your soft waist is swinging, I have a light drop of flowers, and the dew drops of peonies are opened, and they are dipped in some hemp." ”

"I'm going to kill you, and you dare to say it directly in this sentence?" Xu Miaojin was angry and laughing, and was about to continue to laugh a few words, when he suddenly saw Xu Hao close at hand, and suddenly said angrily: "Are you dizzy?" ”

Xu Cuiliu smiled but did not speak, Xu Miaojin was only wearing a cardigan on the hot day, the sleeves were rolled up to reveal the two arms like tender lotus, and the shadow under the sun showed the shape of a milk-peak, and he stretched out his finger.

Xu Miaojin was stunned, looked down and saw that his face was flushed, hurriedly got up and put his hands in front of his chest, glared at Xu Hao fiercely, and turned around and ran towards the house.

Xu Hao said helplessly: "I find that you are becoming more and more unavoidable from me, so you are not afraid of gossip?" You know, we're brother and sister. ”

Xu Cuiliu lowered her head and said softly, "So what? As long as you are willing to want me, I am willing to fight for thousands of scolding. In fact, why didn't my aunt think about you in her heart, otherwise why would she move her heart and steal to see the West Chamber? ”

For Xu Hao, since he had a leg with his sister-in-law and aunt, he has already broken through the lower limit. But there are a lot of women around me, and now I can't cope with them, and I really don't want to provoke her anymore. Besides, there is no impermeable wall in the world, so what should I do with my aunt and sister-in-law? Spread the word?

Xu Cuiliu saw that he was silent, and sighed with self-pity and self-pity.

Xu Hao squinted at her lonely back, remembered his precious son, shook his head and turned around to return to Xu's house.

Zhiqing poured him a cup of herbal tea in the room, and asked Xiao Yushi, "The girl doesn't wear the new earrings given by her wife?" How to put on the jade ring. ”

Xiao Yushi said with a smile: "I wore it for a few days, it was heavy, and now the weather is hot, so I changed it." ”

Qingwen said: "I wore our pendant, and she embroidered a flower on her musk pocket that day, and she didn't make it." ”

Zhiqing laughed and said: "But that's it, you wear my pendant, you should do my family's work, why are you so discordant?" ”

Xiao Yushi said angrily: "Every time they join forces to bully me, there is no good person in this house except for the eldest sister." ”

Qingwen and Zhiqing were about to continue teasing her, when Xu Hao opened her mouth and asked, "How is my cousin's condition?" ”

Xiao Yushi said: "One day is like a day, after taking the Furry Horn Pill and Shenda Run Tonic Soup prepared by the imperial doctor, my blood and complexion are much better." ”

Suddenly, Musk Yue rushed in and shouted, "Oh no, the eldest young master fled back to the capital to report the rebellion of King Qi, and the little grandmother and Lamei are said to have been killed." ”

Xu Hao's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes turned to the window. At the same time in the Forbidden City, the ministers of the court impeached King Qi for his crimes, and King Qi, who had just entered Beijing to see the Son of Heaven, raised his head and said sharply: "Traitorous ministers chatter." Do you want to follow the example of Jianwen? His Majesty is now determined to kill this generation. ”

Xu Wensheng, who was kneeling on the ground, said with tears in his eyes: "The grass people found out that the King of Qi had a disobedient heart in Shandong, and the Qi Wangfu extorted my family's wealth of 10,000 taels, so they took the initiative to seek refuge in order to search for accurate evidence of the crime.

In recent years, the king of Qi conspired to raise the dead, recruited strange warlocks to cast spells and curses, and privately transferred the palace guards to guard Qingzhou City, connecting the city wall and the palace wall into one, and not allowing the officers and soldiers guarding the city to inspect the city. Last month, seeing that the king of Qi wanted to raise troops to rebel, Li Gong, an official of the palace, and others wrote a letter to the urgency, but they were detained by the king of Qi and wanted to kill him, and the grass people were entrusted to flee back to Beijing alone. It is reported that his wife and children were killed by the king of Qi. ”

King Qi said angrily: "Nonsense, this king took you bastard, you eat, drink, prostitute and gamble everything, you owe huge gambling debts, and you dare to spew blood when you kill your wife?" Majesty, why can't such villains do anything for money? is obviously a rebel of the Xu family, and his words are not reliable. ”

Zhu Gaochi said unhappily: "You will know the merits as soon as you check them, and I will ask Uncle Wang to live in the capital for a few months." ”

Not to mention that the imperial court placed the king of Qi under house arrest, and sent generals to lead troops to Qingzhou, Shandong. Arrest the commander Chai Zhi and others, and search the palace for evidence of rebellion.

Xu Wen was also temporarily imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and the news from Shandong was soon sent to Xu Hao.

It turned out that Xu Wen took refuge with Queen Qi and found that King Qi was just an embroidered pillow. Reinforcement of the city wall to drive away officers and soldiers all proved that the King of Qi was not a person who did great things, so Xu Wen decided to immediately turn against the water and find like-minded officials in the palace to secretly expose the King of Qi.

However, Zhu Gaochi and Xu Hao were waiting patiently and played a big game of chess. Moving the king of Qi means the beginning of the cutting of the domain, and it cannot be done for at least three or five years after ascending the throne.

In this way, Xu Wen, as a small chess piece with an insignificant status, cannot control the entire situation at all. Seeing that the secret letters were sinking into the sea, I could only choose to wait.

Something happened to the inner house unconsciously, Yuan and Lamei are not the temperament of keeping to themselves, because Xu Wen is often not at home, living in the palace can't help but secretly hook up with outsiders, and the maids have become accomplices, helping the ladies to match, 36,000 words are omitted here for the time being.

Xu Wen was furious when he learned about it, this time he fled to Beijing and threw all his family members in Qingzhou, and the king of Qi was furious when he heard the news, and ordered Xu Wen to be executed.

At night, the eldest lady Wang ran to Xu Hao crying and begged Xu Hao to save her eldest son, Xu Hao said: "The eldest brother's life is fine, don't worry." ”

Wang cried: "Your eldest brother is for the court this time, not only the daughters-in-law are dead, but even your two-year-old nephew is gone, what is the point of me living!" ”

Seeing his wife sitting on the ground crying and wiping away tears, Xu Hao shook his head slightly, the reason why Xu Wen didn't take his son was because he suspected that it was not his blood. In fact, it is indeed not, it is the brother-in-law of King Qi.

Two years ago, Zhu Qiaoqiao had already written a letter of resignation, because he secretly gave birth to a son in Liaodong, and declared that he was an adopted son, and decided to cut off the marriage with Xu Wen in name only.

After the divorce of the husband and wife, legally speaking, it has nothing to do with the Xu family, of course, the law is the law, the reason is reasonable, as long as you don't marry, you can still think of yourself as the daughter-in-law of the Xu family.

Xu Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly, the eldest brother is about to be thirty years old, this time it can be said that it is not an opportunity to make a decision, the so-called three joys of middle age, promotion and fortune and death of his wife. Now it's good, with this merit, it is not a problem to restore the official position of a hundred households, and the death of his wife, concubine, and son, the imperial court must also make appropriate compensation, and it is not difficult to get tens of thousands of taels of silver from the confiscated property of the Qi Palace.

In order to prevent the royal family from giving birth to a special child like a breeding pig, Xu Hao planned to completely abolish the prince of the King of Qi, unlike when Zhu Yuanzhang only punished his son, but let his descendants inherit the prince, and the prince was equivalent to the iron hat king of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

More than 20 sons of Comrade Lao Zhu, those who died early and have no heirs, so many princes have spread their branches, and the population numbers in a hundred years will definitely be very terrifying, and the sons of each generation will be named the prince of the county, and the eldest son of the prince of the county will still be the king of the domain, and only the titles of other sons will be reduced from the auxiliary generals from generation to generation.

Therefore, Xu Hao's ultimate goal is to abolish the hereditary system of princes, at least after three generations, he has to change from a two-character prince to a three-character county king, and the third son of the prince will begin to decrease from generation to generation after the second generation. The existing royal title level must also be simplified, and it must become an ordinary clan child after five generations, so as not to cause too much burden on the national treasury.

Of course, such an act will be regarded as shaking the foundation of the Zhu family's world, and it will be opposed by the entire royal family, and how to do it will have to be considered in the long run.

King Qi's house arrest means that he has to choose the next target, Xu Hao remembered Zhu Yang, the king of Min, who was denounced by Mu Sheng back then.

In the first year of Hongxi, Zhu Yang was restored to the king, and because of the old feud with the Mu family, there were often officials who accused King Min of "collecting the seals of the Si and killing the people without authorization".

Xu Hao speculated that Zhu Gaochi would choose King Min as the second target of the domain, and the reason why he was interested in Zhu Yang was that it seemed that the later Premier Zhu was a descendant of King Min. (To be continued......)