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Prince Yin still maintains his dignity as a member of the royal family. The clothes on his body are luxurious and clean, spotless, his face is smooth and smooth, and his bun is combed with sharp edges and corners.

It's just that his eyes are gray and dull, and he looks extremely tired.

Prince Yin's left hand rested on the nanmu frame in the carriage, rubbing it non-stop, staring at Xue Poye who was sitting in front of him, and said slowly: "I hope I didn't disturb Mr. Xue."

Xue Poye shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Second Highness, don't say that. I don't dare to be an official. If you want to reprimand me, I will listen to you." His words were thoughtful, and he used "What reprimand does Your Highness have?" ", instead of "What orders does Your Highness have?"

Although these two sentences are separated by one word, they are thousands of miles apart. The meanings of "reprimand" and "command" are completely different.

The reprimand is nothing more than the above-mentioned training, it is a matter of the scene, this order, that is to do things according to the other party's wishes, that is Lizi's business.

Although Xue Poye didn't intend to push the wall down, but he had to be on guard. After all, Prince Yin was defeated like a mountain. If he made some weird requests at this time, Xue Poye could not agree to them at will.

Prince Yin was naturally shrewd, and he could hear the meaning in his words, he smiled lightly, and said slowly: "I won't delay Mr. Xue for too long, but I just have one thing to ask."

Xue Poye's heart trembled, but his face remained calm and said: "Your Highness, it's okay. If I can do it, I will do my best. If I can't, I can only apologize. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."

Prince Yin leaned against the inside of the carriage, it was bitterly cold outside, but inside the carriage was very warm.

"I will leave the capital tomorrow, and maybe I will never come back again in this lifetime." Prince Yin said calmly with no expression on his face: "I actually wanted to leave this hell-like vortex a long time ago."

Xue Poye didn't know whether his words were true or not, so he respectfully said: "Then I wish Your Highness a smooth journey."

Prince Yin waved his hand and said with a faint smile: "I don't care if the wind is smooth or not."

The carriage was silent for a while, and the atmosphere was very awkward.

"Xue Poye, my palace is about to leave, but you just came here not long ago, and people come and go, things in this world are so wonderful." Prince Yin stared at Xue Poye, with a smile on his lips: "You have already won the favor of your father." With the trust and love of the emperor, I am afraid that the future will be boundless."

Xue Poye was startled, and suddenly smiled wryly, "It turns out that His Highness already knew my real name."

Prince Yin sighed: "Before you went to Liuheyuan, I knew your real situation. In fact, this is not difficult." I said a false name in front of you, but you came to Beijing from Hangzhou, the coachman driving the coach is really easy to find, so I just sent someone to Hangzhou to find the coachman, and I will know everything about you."

Xue Poye smiled wryly and shook his head, perhaps those powerful people in the capital already knew his true identity.

But the one who knows about his situation is nothing more than his business in Hangzhou. As Qinglianzhao's helmsman, he is extremely secretive. Few people know about it, or at least no one knows about his Qinglian at present. identity.

"Actually, you don't have to hide your identity just because you are a businessman. This dynasty is not like before, and it is more open to businessmen." Prince Yin said slowly: "In order to take care of you, I am afraid that you will be in trouble. I thought it was to help you by killing the coachman directly, but now it seems that it doesn't matter."

Xue Poye's body shook, and he sighed in his heart, it seemed that he indirectly killed another person.

"Your Highness, I'm a businessman. I always...hey, I always feel a little inferior." Xue Poye could only follow the pole. It turned out that they thought they were hiding their identities because of the businessman.

"You are a businessman, so I won't leave empty-handed the matter I entrusted to you this time. Let's make a deal!" Prince Yin was still very calm.

Xue Poye was taken aback for a moment, and wondered, "A deal?"

Prince Yin nodded and said: "That's right." After pondering for a moment, he suddenly smiled wryly and said, "I don't go around in circles anymore, you should know that there is Ziyanfang in this palace, and there are more than 40 branches of Ziyanfang in the state capitals. This may be the last thing I can take out, as long as you want, they are yours now."

Xue Poye was so startled that he almost jumped up.

Ziyanfang is a rouge and gouache shop. It is very simple to say, but the business is huge. Xue Poye has been to Yuhe once, and has seen Ziyanfang. Compared with his own Hanyuan, Ziyanfang is huge and luxurious. There are a lot of customers, and the customers are rushing in, and the money is rushing in.

That day in the Wan Qin Garden, Prince Fu even used the "Xuanyuan Sword" to gamble on Ziyanfang. Xuanyuan Sword is a royal sacred weapon, which shows the status of Ziyanfang.

Now Prince Yin wants to trade Ziyanfang to himself, how can Xue Poye not be surprised, using Ziyanfang as a bargaining chip, what he does is probably not easy.

Xue Poye said bluntly: "His Royal Highness, if you say this, the lower officials dare not take on the responsibility. How can the lower officials have the courage to take over Ziyanfang, and more importantly, what is your highness? The entrusted matter seems to be powerless for the lower officials."

Prince Yin smiled lightly and said: "I haven't said anything yet, how do you know that you can't do anything? Don't think that Ziyanfang is so important that it is difficult to handle the things I entrust to you. In fact... the current Ziyanfang, in the In my eyes, what is the difference between the value of a stone and the value of a stone?"

Xue Poye opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"I will send you Ziyanfang, and the things entrusted to you are also very simple." Prince Yin said slowly: "I want you to agree. After I leave, you must take good care of Concubine Yi, who is my concubine. Mother."

"What?" Xue Poye was startled.

Prince Yin said seriously: "This is not difficult, you must agree."

Xue Poye frowned and said, "Your Highness may think too highly of me, how can I have that ability? What's more, Concubine Yi is the mother concubine of the country, who would dare to hurt her?"

Prince Yin sneered and said: "There will never be too few people who want to hurt her. Once I leave, the concubine mother will be in a weak position. Those who have ulterior motives will definitely attack the concubine mother." After a pause, Shen Sheng said: "You are in charge of the Fenghuo Camp, and the Xuanhua Palace of the mother concubine is under the protection of the Fenghuo Camp. As long as you are willing, you can protect the safety of the mother concubine, at least you will not let her be in the Xuanhua Palace. were killed by people."

Xue Poye sighed: "Your Highness, please allow me to say something disrespectful and offensive. If someone really wants to hurt Concubine Yi, even if they are not in Xuanhua Palace, they will do it elsewhere."

Prince Yin's face was cold, and he said coldly: "My mother is the mother and concubine of the country. If she was killed in other places, the father will always deal with it. Everyone knows the methods of the father, so no one will be in danger outside Xuanhua Palace. Hurt the concubine mother. As long as Xuanhua Palace is well guarded, the concubine mother will be safe, Xue Poye, you must agree to this palace!"

Xue Poye saw Prince Yin's expression of worry. No matter what, Prince Yin was always a very filial person, so he could only say: "Don't worry, Your Highness, to protect the safety of the palace. Concubine Yi's Xuanhua Palace, I... I will do my best!"

Xue Poye didn't say anything to protect Concubine Yi's safety, but this Xuanhua Palace is determined to protect it with all its strength.

Prince Yin seemed relieved, nodded slowly, and said softly: "The thing I was most worried about has been settled, Xue Poye, thank you, Bengong!"

"You should do your duty, Your Highness rest assured!" Xue Poye said solemnly.

The mother is worried when the son travels thousands of miles, but the son who is away from home is not worried about his mother.

Prince Yin took off a black ring from his hand, handed it to Xue Poye, and said solemnly: "This is my token, with it, Ziyanfang is yours, and the principals of Ziyanfang's state capitals all see you." Things are like seeing people, I have notified Yuhe Ziyanfang that you can take over at any time, and the master will hand over the house deeds and accounts of the 48 Ziyanfangs to you."

Xue Poye got up and bowed: "Your Highness, you have misunderstood. It is the duty of the lower officials to protect the Xuanhua Palace, and it is not that the lower officials want to make deals with His Highness!"

Prince Yin pressed his hands, and Xue Poye sat down and sighed: "Xue Poye, you know the situation of this palace. After I go to Yunzhou, there must be many people in Ziyanfang who are concerned about it, even It's the father, maybe it will be confiscated. This is my painstaking effort, once it becomes an official business, it will lose its brilliance, so I have to find someone to let it continue to operate." Pause, slowly Said: "Father trusts you, as long as you take over Ziyanfang, father may acquiesce, and this Ziyanfang can continue its glory, so I didn't send you Ziyanfang just to give you Ziyanfang, but It is for the future of Ziyanfang. The folks in Ziyanfang have been trained for many years and are proficient in this way. Once Ziyanfang is confiscated, these people will lose their jobs, and Ziyanfang will also lose their experts, so you Gotta take it and let these guys have a meal."

Xue Poye stared at Prince Yin, and suddenly thought of a sentence.

When a man is about to die, his words are good; when a beast is about to die, his cry is also sad!

Although Prince Yin is not dead, for a prince, being expelled is not much different from death. At this time, it is rare for him to be able to think of those who work for him.

Xue Poye naturally has plans to do business in the capital, and this kind of plan is not a day or two. When he was in Hangzhou, he thought about this issue, but the time was not ripe.

A big pie fell from the sky today, which shocked Xue Poye, but deep down in his heart, he was still a little excited.

It's just that you suddenly took over such a large industry, and you don't know what the consequences will be?

While hesitating, Prince Yin stuffed the black ring into his hand, and said indifferently: "Today has delayed you for a long time. For a person like me, it's better not to bother me too much. You go."

Xue Poye was stunned for a while, looking at the exhausted Prince Yin, he finally said: "Your Highness, take care!"

Prince Yin nodded, and suddenly said: "Xue Poye, even today, in the future, you should still take care of yourself!" He shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed: "I didn't expect that when I parted from the capital, the last entrusted person was you, hehe ..., to this day, only you in this palace can entrust important matters, only you, only you...!"

With a lonely look on his face, he seemed to be tired of something.

Xue Poye was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Your Highness, I hope your Highness will not blame you for asking something that should not be asked!"

"Say it!" Prince Yin looked at Xue Poye and said.

Xue Poye hesitated to speak, but after a long time, he said: "Since there is a crown prince, why bother to fight!"

This is a very stupid question. In the emperor's family, even if the crown prince is established early, there will still be such a struggle for the throne, just like there are battles in every corner of the court. This is human nature.

But Xue Poye just wanted to know Prince Yin's state of mind, maybe it was reckless to ask, but Xue Poye couldn't help asking.

Prince Yin closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time before slowly saying: "I won't fight, others will fight. After they ascend the throne, they will punish me to death, and even hurt my mother and concubine. I want to protect myself and protect my concubine." , there is only struggle. Once it starts, there are only two paths to the end, winner and loser!"

"Maybe not!" Xue Poye frowned.

Prince Yin sneered and said, "Even if they won't punish me after they ascend the throne, but...!" After a pause, he waved his hand and said, "Go!"

Xue Poye knew that he didn't want to talk anymore, so he could only salute and get off the carriage.

Prince Yin suddenly opened the curtains, and said flatly: "I don't want to be like Uncle Huang!" After speaking, he lowered the curtains.

Xue Poye was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't realize what Prince Yin meant very quickly.

Even if the crown prince or other princes don't embarrass Prince Yin after ascending the throne, Prince Yin can only become a mediocre prince who looks noble but is actually useless.

Young people are all proud and arrogant, no one will take "useless people" as their target, let alone a person like Prince Yin, if it is not His Majesty the Emperor, I am afraid that no one will have a chance of winning against him.

Xue Poye stared at the curtains in a daze, while the carriage had already driven away slowly, and soon disappeared from Xue Poye's eyes.

Prince Yin sat in the car with his eyes closed, and after a long while, he said to Duan Kezhang: "You follow me back to the palace, take the holy artifact, and go to see Father together. I think he is also waiting for me to return the holy artifact Woolen cloth!"

Duan Kezhang agreed, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes.

When Xue Poye returned to his room, there was no trace of the little stone, and he didn't know where to study it. He closed the door, leaned on the bed, and took out the black ring.

The ring doesn't look special, even ordinary, but in itself, it's not necessarily precious. It's just that the wealth behind this ring is huge and astonishing.

The crown prince has a foreign treasury, and the source of funds for Prince Yin's fight for the throne mostly depends on the wealth behind this ring.

Playing with the ring plate for a while, feeling bored and lazy, Xue Poye unexpectedly fell asleep in a daze.

This sleep was surprisingly sweet, and in the dream, he dreamed of many scenes after returning to Hangzhou, the most exciting of which was naturally the love affair with Xiao Suzhen.

I don't know how long it took, Xue Poye woke up and turned around, and found that the door was still locked, the sky had already darkened, and the stove in the room had also dimmed, and it was actually a bit cold.

He got up and stretched, opened the door and went out of the house, a chill hit his face, and he couldn't help shivering.

Walking in the courtyard, I saw that the small stone house was brightly lit, so I walked over leisurely, looked in through the window, and saw Ming Xu standing next to a dummy, drooling and explaining the human body Acupuncture points all over the body.

The dummy was made lifelike, it was white, and I don't know what it was made of, it was full of meridians and acupoints, it seemed that Mingxu had just made it a few days ago.

Xiao Shitou sat on the chair and listened with gusto, while the green lady stood aside, smiling and listening.

Xue Poye sighed, this monk Mingxu's precept of "lying" may have been forgotten long ago.

He is also the servant of the household department and the vice general guard of Habayashi, but he is quite leisurely, which makes Xue Poye feel at ease. When he walked into the courtyard, he couldn't help stretching his waist and said, "It's comfortable!"

As soon as the words were finished, footsteps sounded, a Habayashi general in armor galloped towards him, Xue Poye frowned and stared, but it was Captain Gongyangyue.

The three captains of the Yulin Camp, Ximen Leizang and Zhao Tianda guarded the bank of the household department, and Gong Yangyue stayed in the camp for deployment, but he didn't know what was going on at this time, watching Gong Yangyue's hurried footsteps, and usually smiling At this time, his face was serious, Xue Poye quickly walked up to him, and said in a deep voice, "Captain Gongyang, what happened?"

Gong Yangyue stopped, saluted, looked left and right, then approached Xue Poye, and said in a low voice: "My lord, something happened in the palace!"

Xue Poye frowned, shit, there are always accidents in the palace, this time I don't know what happened again, and asked in a low voice: "What happened again? Is anyone dead?"

"died!"

Xue Poye was startled, and lost his voice: "Damn, someone died again, who is it? Could it be another concubine who favors concubine?"

Gong Yangyue said solemnly: "Yes... the Holy One was assassinated!"

Xue Poye was so frightened that he lost his voice and said, "You are... you mean... Your Majesty... Your Majesty is dead... passed away...!" Fortunately, he still thought of the word "death".

This shock was no small matter. Xue Poye immediately thought of the major consequences of Emperor Deqing's assassination and death. Maybe he would soon become a victim of the power struggle.

In any case, Emperor Deqing could not die at this time.

Gong Yangyue hurriedly said: "The Holy One is the Son of Heaven, he is blessed by heaven, my lord...!" He looked around and found no one, so he was slightly relieved.

If Xue Poye's words were heard, they would be caught.

Xue Poye hurriedly said: "Then how is your Majesty doing now?"

"The Holy Majesty is in the palace, there is no serious problem." Gong Yangyue whispered: "It's just that the assassin was killed on the spot, don't worry, my lord."

Xue Poye breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, mentioned that the stone in his throat fell, and said repeatedly: "That's good, that's good." After a pause, he said in a low voice: "Do you know who the assassin is? ?”

Gongyangyue nodded with a strange expression.

Xue Poye said in a deep voice: "Follow me." He led Gong Yangyue back to the house, lit the lamp, closed the door, and then asked in a low voice: "What is going on, tell me clearly, How could the Holy Majesty be assassinated? By the way, where was the Holy Majesty assassinated, was it the brother guards of our Fenghuo camp?"

Gong Yangyue shook his head and said, "He's a brother of Taijiying."

Only then did Xue Poye heave a sigh of relief. If it was the guard of the Fenghuo camp, he might be in trouble again.

"However...!" Gongyangyue said slowly: "But this time the assassination has nothing to do with Yubayashi Wei, and the Holy One did not anger Yubayashiying either."

"That's good!" Xue Poye was completely relieved when he heard that the Holy One was not hindered, and Yu Linying was not responsible, and asked: "Yes, you said that the assassin was killed on the spot, who is it? "

"It's Prince Yin's man!" Gong Yangyue said a name that shocked Xue Poye: "It's Zhang Wuming, one of the three pines in the Yin family!"

Zhang Wuming is Duan Kezhang!

Xue Poye stared straight in disbelief, the muscles on his face twisted, and his expression instantly became terrifying.