"Oh? How can you help me solve my problems?" Zhu Liangzu, who also had a thick curly beard, asked with interest.
He Di told Zhu Liangzu their plans.
After hearing this, Zhu Liangzu immediately lost his face: "What a bad idea. It's too late for me to hide from him now, and you actually asked me to get closer to him."
"Master Marquis, I understand what you are thinking. It is just to wait until the court has no time to change the commander, then you will be safe." He Di smiled.
"You know you are causing trouble for me?" Zhu Liangzu said angrily: "Just wait and see, you will be safe when I am safe. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"
"What the Marquis said is true, but the question is, will His Highness the King of Chu be so cooperative?" He Di said quietly: "If he wants to deal with the Marquis, doesn't he know that he has to take advantage of this last less than a month?"
"Of course he knows, that's why I never leave the house, even pretending not to know that my son was arrested by him." Zhu Liangzu said with a sullen face: "Isn't it just to survive this period of time? What's the matter?
Let’s wait until next month.”
"Oh, Lord Marquis is really a fan of the authorities." He Di shook his head after hearing this, looked at Zhu Liang with a wry smile and said, "If you don't mess with him, he won't mess with you? His Highness the King of Chu rescued Daotong and captured Xu Jiantai.
The confessions of these two people can kill you."
"..." Zhu Liangzu did not deny it immediately. After a while, he muttered: "Xu Benya probably won't betray me."
"Haha, Mr. Hou is too confident." He Di sneered and said: "According to reliable information, Xu Benya has given up and expressed that he is willing to recruit anything. However, Daotong did not ask questions on the spot, saying that the heat was not enough yet and he had to do it again.
Fight for a few days."
Looking at the pale Zhu Liangzu, He Di said softly: "But whether it is because the heat is not enough or whether he wants to be questioned privately is unknown."
"His whole family is on your ship, and Xu Benya doesn't care whether they live or die?" Zhu Liangzu said bitterly.
"No matter what, that's why I lasted so many days." He Di sighed: "But a person's endurance is limited after all. If he can't stand the torture, he will eventually speak."
"Why doesn't he eat the red crane crown that I gave him?" Zhu Liangzu asked in a muffled voice.
"He was found as soon as he entered. King Chu's men were experienced. Xu Zhengtai hid the medicine bottle in the valley, but they still found it." He Di is indeed a local snake, and everyone knows this kind of thing.
"Well..." Zhu Liangzu finally stopped talking.
He Di continued to attack him and said: "The confessions of Daotong and Xu Zhengtai can perfectly prove that in order to avoid punishment, the Marquis ordered the prosecutor to frame the crime and falsely accused Daotong. What's more serious is that you actually deceived the emperor and tried to take advantage of the emperor's temperament.
Because of his impatience, he kills people with a borrowed knife, so the emperor orders his fellow Taoists to be executed."
After a pause, he slowed down his tone and said grimly: "Anyone who has some power hates being fooled the most, let alone an emperor who is self-centered and prides himself on being extremely wise. Mr. Hou, tell me, His Highness the King of Chu has put two
Provide the person's confession and arrange for a few censors to impeach you. Can the Emperor spare you?"
"Stop talking!" Zhu Liangzu slammed the table and said inwardly: "Then why didn't he send an emergency report? What are you waiting for?!"
"Of course it's a trap." He Di said with an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Hou, I'm not saying that Xie is a mouse, I'm just using an analogy to show that His Highness the King of Chu is worried that catching you will lead to serious consequences. Mr. Hou
With an army of more than 100,000 in his hands, he has a great cause in his system and is of great importance, so he must not touch it without permission."
Zhu Liangzu's expression brightened slightly when he heard these words, and his self-esteem felt a little comforted.
"Furthermore, if Mr. Hou is captured, we will be implicated. Before he knows how deep our connection is and how many people are involved, he will not dare to act rashly." He Di continued:
"Otherwise, if Guangdong rebels and the army is in chaos, the trouble will be huge. Even if he is a twin prince and the emperor's son, he still cannot bear this responsibility!"
"Well, that makes sense..." Zhu Liangzu couldn't help but nodded and said, "I think so too these days. It's just like you said, the authorities are blind to the beholder. I'd better listen to you and finally my heart will be enlightened."
"You're right. It's really pointless for me to stay at home. On the contrary, I'm being looked down upon." His eyes regained their sparkle, and his former aura returned little by little.
"This is just like fighting. Even if you don't want to fight, you can't just show weakness. You have to let the other party understand that you have the determination and ability to fight to the death, and then he will choose peace." Zhu Liangzu then said solemnly:
"If I stay at home all day long, I will only make the King of Chu mistakenly think that he can control me. On the contrary, when things go wrong, he will probably ignore me and bring the evidence to the court. Then it will be troublesome."
"The Marquis finally figured it out!" He Di said with a smile and his hands: "You have to let him understand your strength and understand that we Guangdong natives will advance and retreat with you, then he will..."
"A rat-proof weapon." Zhu Liangzu continued.
"That's not what I said." He Di couldn't help but smile.
"Hahaha!" Zhu Liangzu laughed loudly, sweeping away the previous haze.
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In the backyard of the Chief Secretary, the Wind Pavilion comes from all directions.
It is said that since Lao Liu came to Guangzhou, he has been staying in this relatively cool attic, and he will not go out until the injury on his butt is healed.
The weather in Guangdong is so damn hot. I thought the summer in Nanjing and Suzhou would be tough enough, but I didn’t expect it to pale in comparison to Lingnan.
The same dampness and heat, which was just a feeling in Nanjing, turned into a burning and sticky feeling in Guangzhou.
The sun is hot and violent, and enough rainwater evaporates when it falls on the ground. People walk in the dense water vapor, just like swimming fish. After just a few moments outdoors, they can forget that they are terrestrial animals.
People like Zhu Zhen, who came from the south of the Yangtze River, couldn't stand it. Within a few days after arriving, he started to feel hot, broke out in acne, had a sore throat, developed phlegm, and even suffered from insomnia. His whole body was on fire.
So he hid in the pavilion all day long, using herbal tea in his left hand, old soup in his right hand, ice cube fan, scraping and cupping, fighting against the heat.
Zhu Zhen finally understood why Lingnan was called the land of smog and why court officials regarded exile in Lingnan as a point of no return.
"I finally know what Su Dongpo was thinking when he wrote the sentence 'I wonder if Lingnan should be good'." He asked someone to bring herbal tea to the sweating Taoist fellow: "I feel that it is so hot that I sent you."
It’s a sin to go out.”
"Your Highness is new here and is not used to it. After a long time, he has resisted the heat." Daotong took the herbal tea, drank most of the bowl in one breath, wiped his mouth and said: "Didn't it delay the Cantonese people from reproducing here for generations? They are still under the influence.
Nanyang is going to a wetter and hotter place to find food."
"Indeed, people are very adaptable." Zhu Zhen nodded with emotion, but he still chose to settle in the temperate zone in the future.
