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The incident of the prince’s sacrificial ceremony did not end because he was placed under house arrest in the East Palace. The imperial officials at Yushitai were the first to suffer, and expressed their concerns about the fate of the Great Chu with tears. As a dignified prince, on such a solemn and solemn occasion If such a weird thing in the next life is intentional, the crime should be punished. If it is unintentional, it at least shows that the prince does not even have the ability to protect the sacrificial ceremony, let alone the country.

Of course, these passionate censors did not reprimand directly, but expressed this point of view skillfully. All yamen in Kyoto, except for the Kyoto Prefecture and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, were discussing this matter.

Yushitai was the brunt, followed by the academicians of the Imperial Academy, then the three divisions and six divisions, then the four-door admiral's mansion, and then...!

Naturally, the officials of the princelings will not sit still and try their best to refute. It is said that the court these days is very lively and very interesting.

His Majesty the Emperor always patiently listened to the advice of the ministers, and looked at the papers sent by the ministers calmly. Emperor Deqing did not give any instructions to the various courtiers who supported or opposed the prince.

Emperor Deqing's calmness made everyone wonder what kind of attitude this man had. Although many people wanted to take advantage of this time to subvert the prince's position, but Emperor Deqing's unpredictable appearance, Many people felt that His Majesty the Emperor just wanted to deal with this matter coldly and let the prince stay in the East Palace for a while to avoid the limelight.

At the beginning of the incident, this matter did not exert any chemical effect in Xue Poye's heart at all, and it seemed that it had nothing to do with himself. It was not until the news that the prince was under house arrest in the East Palace came that Xue Poye realized it. It seems to have some effect on itself.

After the incident of the Prince's Sacrifice, it was just a time when he was in a state of desperation. Naturally, he had no time to deal with the unexpected things in Kyoto, let alone intervene in interests outside of Kyoto. Waiku has no energy to protect the Fang family in Yangzhou and the Lu family in Hangzhou.

There is no need to doubt Nan Huaiwu's ability, plus Huo Yuancheng, Luo Ding, Qiu Zhili and other elite soldiers below, if they only rely on the wisdom of business warfare to fight against the Lu family, without the support of the prince, the Lu family may soon be defeated. Nan Huaiwu was swallowed up by a group of people.

For Xue Poye in this world, Hangzhou is undoubtedly his root, and those industries are undoubtedly his most proud works since he came to Dachu. Of course, he will always pay attention to the industries in his roots.

Xue Poye specially asked Mrs. Lv to send a secret letter to find out the current situation of the Hangzhou sub-rudder. After all, with Xiao Pan and Qian Hong in charge, there must not be too many mistakes. In addition, Xue Poye even revised three letters , did not leave a signature, and asked Lv Niangzi to return to Hangzhou through Feixin, and secretly handed over the letter to Nan Huaiwu, Yuezhu and Qiu Zhili through the brothers at the helm of Hangzhou. Make up a set of reasons to tell a few people, so that they can feel at ease.

A few days later, on October 17th, the [-]th year of Da Chu Deqing, the invitation of the second prince Liu Ziyin finally arrived.

The carriage sent by Liu Ziyin came to the son-in-law's mansion at dusk to welcome Xue Poye to the "Huiying Hall".

Prince Yin originally lived in the Yongtai Palace inside the palace, but because His Majesty the Emperor took a tacit attitude towards his recruitment, he also had a separate courtyard outside the palace.

This "Huiying Pavilion" is Prince Yin's other courtyard. It is better to say that it is a Zhuangzi that occupies a very large area.

Gather the heroes of the world!

This is the original intention of the other courtyard, but more than half of these so-called "heroes" are just aliens with certain skills. However, those are all people who can stand on their own, and they are also the real talents that Prince Yin has obtained from recruiting followers over the years.

The facade of the Huiying Pavilion is not very big, but it is not small. Two mighty and huge stone lions bared their teeth and danced their claws, glaring at the people who came in front of the door, and the main entrance of the Huiying Pavilion also had some weird characters coming in and out, or Calm, or unruly, or frowning, or smiling, there are more than a hundred houses in this huge courtyard, and most of these strange characters who come and go live in the courtyard Keepers.

Prince Yin's retainers are also a scene in Kyoto. According to common sense, these characters of the three religions and nine streams should be difficult to control, but Prince Yin seems to have a good way of dealing with these lazy retainers. Even if some of these retainers drink and fight, but for There was no major disturbance to the order of the entire capital.

Many people believe that the two eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, the Kyoto Prefecture and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely fix their eyes on the diners of the Huiying Pavilion.

When Xue Poye was sitting in a carriage and walking on the Qingshiban road in Kyoto, he kept thinking about whether he would see the chrysanthemum boy Duan Kezhang in the Huiying Pavilion recently.

From a certain point of view, it is really an adventure for Xue Poye to go to the banquet today. Once Duan Kezhang is really a nail set by Prince Yin in Qinglianzhao, or if he really leans his head under his door now, it will be a big deal for Xue Poye. For Ye, it is a very threatening thing. Once Duan Kezhang sees him, as long as he casually reveals some information to Prince Yin, for example, Xue Poye is the rudder leader of Qinglianzhao Hangzhou Branch, then what Xue Poye will face a disaster.

However, Xue Poye's mood was very calm. He always believed that Duan Kezhang was a real man, and he would never do such a sinister and despicable thing. Although Qian Hong's retreat was not necessarily an earth-shattering event, it reflected from a certain angle that Duan Kezhang was very benevolent.

Xue Poye never imagined his brother with the worst guess.

When the carriage stopped at the main gate, Xue Poye saw Prince Yin and several people standing at the gate to greet him, and Duan Kezhang, whom he had been worried about all along, was suddenly among them.

Duan Kezhang looked like a stone sculpture, cold and hard, with sharp eyes staring at the carriage.

Xue Poye's heart couldn't help beating faster. Seeing Duan Kezhang's appearance, he seemed to be really enjoying a luxurious life in brocade clothes and jade robes. The quack spirit of not long ago seemed to have disappeared a lot.

With his hands behind his back, he stood on Prince Yin's left side naturally but harmoniously.

Xue Poye restrained his excitement and jumping, and the servant had already opened the car curtain, so he got out of the carriage calmly, straightened his clothes, turned to Prince Yin, smiled and saluted: "Cao Min has seen Your Highness, thank you for your invitation to the banquet , the grassroots are truly ashamed."

The moment Duan Kezhang saw Xue Poye, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, which was a kind of shock from the marrow, but his solid appearance concealed his shock, even though the surprise flashed in his eyes The color, that also passed by in a flash, and was not noticed by anyone.

No one noticed that Duan Kezhang's hands behind his back were trembling uncontrollably, but soon he realized this himself, and regained his composure in an instant, his eyes fell on the stone lion in front of the door.

Prince Yin stepped forward and took Xue Poye's hand, and said with a smile: "Master Xue, today is a small banquet. I guess that Master Xue doesn't like too much noise, so it's just a small gathering of a few people."

"Ashamed, ashamed!" Xue Poye didn't go to see Duan Kezhang at all, and seemed extremely calm. The two of them seemed to be meeting each other for the first time, and it seemed that they disdain each other.

Prince Yin held Xue Poye's hand very satisfied, and surrounded by four or five guests, entered the Huiying Hall.

As soon as he entered the hall, Xue Poye saw pavilions, terraces and pavilions, and even more so, the diners in all kinds of strange costumes.

Speaking of which, there are quite a lot of people in the Huiying Hall. Apart from the diners, there are Xiao Si's servants, but it is rare to see maids. Xue Poye understands this point. Most of the diners here are men with full body Jianghu nature, if a maid is arranged here, some guys are not allowed to act wildly, and they will inevitably cause trouble.

The diners I met on the road all respectfully saluted Prince Yin, and every time we walked a certain distance, several groups of people would gather together to gamble, or compete in martial arts, or play chess, or drink, and lived a leisurely and happy life, but In Xue Poye's eyes, there is no difference between this group of people and parasites. Only people like Prince Yin can afford to raise them, and only such people dare to raise them.

In addition to the Han people, there were Khitan people, Tubo people, Xixia people, and even Korean people and those weird people who couldn't name them, but there were no Beihu people, at least Xue Poye didn't see it, so it can be seen that the Great Chu He and Beihu are really enemies in the government, and there is a tendency of not getting in touch with each other forever.

The fragrance of the small pavilion is far away, and the breeze soothes people's worries!

Huiying Pavilion naturally has a special residence for Prince Yin. His residence is naturally different from other places. Apart from being more luxurious and beautiful, the biggest feature is quietness. Unless Prince Yin summons, the diners hardly come near this area. , even if they are adjacent, the diners try to keep quiet as much as possible, not daring to disturb the quietness of Prince Yin.

It is common for Prince Yin to recruit guests, but today seems to be a bit special.

Under normal circumstances, when Prince Yin recruits some guests, he just comforts them with warm words, and then asks his servants to arrange daily meals and provide so-called "pocket money". It is rare to see Prince Yin personally entertaining guests. Under the circumstances, it is usually because the diners are not ordinary people. As for setting up a banquet today, it is an extremely rare situation to lead the "Three Pines from the Yin Family" to greet them in front of the Huiying Hall.

So many diners were very curious about this young and beautiful young guest today. When everyone gradually learned that this was Xue Shitou, who slaughtered three mastiffs with his bare hands in the Ten Thousand Birds Garden recently, the first reaction of everyone was admiration, and then jealousy , in the end, they all showed doubts. After all, such a young and beautiful young man was able to kill three Tibetan mastiffs with his bare hands, which made many people not believe it.

Since Xue Poye entered the courtyard, he has been paying attention to the guests around Prince Yin. Naturally, he already knows the name of "Three Pines of Yin Family", but he really doesn't know who are those three "pine trees" .

In Prince Yin's flowing water pavilion, a small banquet was set between rockery and flowing water, which was extremely elegant, and the outline of the moon was also shown in the sky.

There are no more than five people who are really at the banquet.

In addition to Xue Poye and Prince Yin, Duan Kezhang was also on the list, and the remaining two retainers, one old and one young, did not look like ordinary characters.

The old man was only in his fifties, and he looked very kind, with black and white hair, and he was actually smoking a pipe, and the pipe in his hand looked very ordinary. People in the Jianghu are the old people, women and monks, and the old people live in them. The tricks and experiences of the old people are always frightening.

Wearing a light blue gown, he looks like a teacher, always looking at Xue Poye from time to time, showing a kind smile, Xue Poye really can't tell whether this smile is genuine or fake.

The boy is very young, younger than Xue Poye, but at the age of 21, his head has no hair, just a monk's head. If there is no scar on his head, Xue Poye really thought he was a monk.

The boy's eyes are very cold, even comparable to the icy fourth prince Liu Zifu, but his appearance is very ordinary, even a little ugly, when that kind of coldness appears on his face, it looks abnormal ferocious.

Prince Yin said softly: "Master Xue, you probably don't know these three, I'm here to introduce you." Pointing to the old man, he said, "This is Mr. Mo, he is a descendant of the Mo family in the pre-Qin period." Then pointing to the young man Said: "This is Wuhuan." Prince Yin didn't explain too much about the young man, as if he didn't want Xue Poye to know too much, but said with a smile: "Master Xue must have heard of the 'Three Trees of the Yin Family' in the capital. 'This alias, these three people present are my Sankesong from the Yin family."

Xue Poye was stunned, he was not shocked that he could see the three pines of the whole Yin family today, nor was he shocked that the young Wu Huan was also among the three pines of the Yin family, what shocked him was that Duan Kezhang was also among the three pines of the Yin family The row of three pines.

What he wants to know most now is how Prince Yin introduced Duan Kezhang, and what name and identity Duan Kezhang appears here.

Prince Yin didn't make him wait for too long, he already leisurely pointed to Duan Kezhang who was seated beside him and said: "This is an unknown hero, the big chapter is unknown, and he is one of the best helpers around my palace."

"Oh!" Xue Poye looked at Duan Kezhang, and saw that he was sitting upright, just holding a glass of wine, with an expression that didn't know him at all. What exactly are you going to do?

The wine table was dull and boring, which naturally had a reason for the estrangement of superiority and inferiority, but the more reason was that the Sankesong of the Yin family looked really boring.

In a kind of plain politeness, this small banquet lasted more than half an hour, and most of the middle was Prince Yin's gentle narration of certain things, such as the scale personnel of the Huiying Hall, such as praising Xue Po to the Yin Family Sankesong Ye's wit and bravery in the Wanqiyuan, or in front of Xue Poye praised some deeds of the Sankesong of the Yin family. Although those deeds were exaggerated in Xue Poye's ears, everyone listened carefully. As he spoke, Mr. Mo occasionally said a few words with a smile.

Uninteresting and bland, extremely boring!

The wine beauty was drunk, and the young man Wuhuan soon became drunk and was helped away by his servants. Mr. Mo also left soon, and Duan Kezhang finally left calmly, without even looking at Xue Poye.

Xue Poye knew clearly that the appearance of the Sankesong of the Yin family was just an arrangement of Prince Yin. This detail was just to let Xue Poye understand that I, Liu Ziyin, value you very much and show you a semblance of sincerity.

Xue Poye understands that the small banquet is just an opening statement, and the purpose of Prince Yin's banquet today, I believe it will be revealed soon.

"Master Xue, your reputation has been greatly shaken in the battle of Wanqianyuan. This is naturally a gratifying thing, but... hey...!" Prince Yin suddenly sighed, and there was a bit of worry on that healthy and smooth face. color.

Xue Poye was amused, but asked curiously, "Why is your Highness sighing?"

Prince Yin stared at Xue Poye, smiled slightly, and said warmly: "This person is afraid of being famous and afraid of being strong. Master Xue's ability in Wanqiyuan is naturally known by many people. I believe that many people have already started to treat Xue Poye. Master has moved his mind, maybe many people are planning to harm Master Xue."

"Oh!" Xue Poye suddenly smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern. If someone really wants to harm the grass people, then the grass people will go back to their hometown. The grass people didn't offend anyone here. Going back to their hometown, I don't think there will be any trouble."

"If you are famous, you will offend people." Prince Yin sighed: "If you offend some people in the capital, let alone go back to your hometown, even if you go to Mobei and southern borders, you will probably be found."

Xue Poye rolled his eyeballs, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, when you say that grass people offend people, do you mean... four...!"

Prince Yin sighed: "He is just one of them. If you offend him, it is tantamount to offending a large group of people below him. Think about it yourself, will your future road be easy?"

"This..." Xue Poye pretended to be nervous and said, "What should I do? Why don't Prince Yin lead me to see the Fourth Prince tomorrow, and I ask him for my sins, but I don't know if this is possible?"

Prince Yin shook his head and sighed: "Many people know about the matter between me and my fourth brother. Due to the discord in temperament, there is a bit of grievance. Last time you worked for me, that really angered him. Back then, I Gong didn't think of this, and it was really my fault that the fourth younger brother had a misunderstanding with Master Xue. The fourth younger brother always seeks revenge, and his subordinates are powerful, so Master Xue is afraid... hey...!"

Xue Poye only felt that Prince Yin was acting too much, but Prince Yin really liked buying people's hearts. He spent half a day patiently playing tricks with himself. I'm afraid this is one of Prince Yin's favorite games. Ordinary princes and nobles are probably not in the mood to "treat" a commoner so well.

Seeing Xue Poye's strange expression, Prince Yin thought that Xue Poye was worried about Prince Fu's ambition, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and sighed: "Kyoto is the best place in the world, and it is also the worst place, it can be heaven, or it can be It's hell."

Xue Poye pretended to be ignorant, and stared blankly at Prince Yin.

"If you want to survive in the capital, everyone needs help in this water and fire beach. With the strength of one person, you will soon fall into the water and fire, and your body will be smashed to pieces." Prince Yin's voice was a little serious: "Master Xue, if you want to There is probably only one way to live comfortably in the capital, or to live comfortably in Dachu."

"What way?"

"Find a backer you can rely on."

Xue Poye stared at Prince Yin, and said slowly: "Who can I find?"

"Me!" Prince Yin stared at Xue Poye, and said word by word: "Zi Yin is willing to help Master Xue to be prosperous and rich, and to help Master Xue to be safe and sound!"

He wants people to be his slaves, but he keeps saying beautiful words to help others. This is of course a very interesting thing.