Chapter 341: If the number exceeds 3,000, it will be considered as treason
Sang Zhixia's claim of feeling unwell was an obvious excuse, and anyone with a discerning eye could see it.
But after entering the house, Xu Yu asked again with a frown.
If Sang Zhixia hadn't stopped him and said it wasn't necessary, Xu Yu would have sent someone to find a doctor on the spot.
Sang Zhixia pulled the frowning Xu Yu to sit down, raised her chin towards the outside, and said in a strange tone: "From what I saw last night, it didn't seem like you and that person knew each other. How come you're friends today?"
It's obvious that Xu Yu keeps people at a distance, but what about that guy named Jiang Yubai?
How did this so-called "rolling in the mud" friendship come about?
Xu Yu's face was so gloomy that it seemed as if water could be squeezed out of it in the next second. The words he spoke were filled with chilling coldness: "The last time I met Jiang Yubai was at the Emperor's birthday banquet eighteen years ago."
"At that time, he was the son of King Hui, and I am the eldest grandson of the Xu family."
Sang Zhixia's eyes narrowed slightly, and she said in disbelief: "You mean, he is..."
"But didn't my grandfather, when he was telling me history, say that Prince Hui was the late emperor's beloved youngest son, whose only son died young, and whose wife died of grief over the incident? Didn't Prince Hui request a fiefdom as far south as Lingnan over ten years ago?"
The old man doesn't talk nonsense.
How come the old man, who said he was dead a long time ago, is still alive and well now?
Xu Yu was amused by the surprise on her face. He leaned his head on Sang Zhixia's shoulder, feeling tired and said sullenly, "It's really scary to see someone who should have been rotten to pieces suddenly come back to life."
King Hui's fiefdom was in Lingnan. He never set foot in the imperial city for more than ten years. There was no news of King Hui having any more children. It seemed that King Hui's lineage had completely disappeared.
But the Lingnan King Seal on Jiang Yubai's body cannot be fake.
No one dares to fake something like this.
Xu Yu muttered in a muffled voice, "I was careless. I didn't even notice there was a pair of eyes hidden in the dark."
After the Xu family was exiled to the northwest, Xu Yu was initially busy surviving, and then he secretly investigated the truth of the Hongbei Battle and tried to find those who knew the truth.
Xu Yu originally thought that the emperor was far away and with Chen Nianhe's cover, no one would notice the movements in the northwest.
Who would have thought that after all the calculations, Lingnan, which had been silent for many years, was overlooked.
Sang Zhixia's heart was beating wildly. He swallowed hard, then spoke in a hoarse voice, "Grandfather once said that during the late emperor's time, Prince Hui's talent far surpassed the current one. The practice of enthroning the eldest son as the heir repeatedly stirred up unrest in the court, and it was only when Prince Hui's lineage completely withdrew from the imperial city that the situation was resolved."
"The King Hui's only son, who was rumored to have died young many years ago, is now here. Doesn't that mean..."
Sang Zhixia felt a chill in her heart and couldn't continue.
Unable to conceal his irritability, Xu Yu closed his eyes and said coldly, "Prince Hui was once only one step away from becoming the Son of Heaven. Even though he was far away in Lingnan, he never gave up his desire for that position."
"Our family has just arrived in the northwest, and we might have already been targeted."
Xu Yu believed that he knew the situation in the northwest very well and should not have made such a mistake.
But Xu Yu had no idea whether Jiang Yubai was still alive, when he arrived in the northwest, or what his purpose was.
The darkness in Xu Yu's eyes kept fading. Sang Zhixia gently pinched the tip of his ear and asked, "So what happened to him last night?"
"Why is the good little prince pretending to be unhappy and pretending to be a weak scholar to take the blame for you?"
Even if you lack the element of wood in your destiny, you can't play it like this, right?
Isn’t Jiang Yubai afraid that he will die on the spot if he is hit by an arrow?
Xu Yu laughed out loud when he talked about this: "That arrow was shot by Jiang Yubai's men with great precision. If he hadn't rushed out to disrupt the situation, there would probably not have been that extra arrow!"
After being exposed, Jiang Yubai only admitted the fact of the self-torture trick, but insisted that he had no idea what was going on with that group of bandits.
But even a fool knows that this cannot be taken seriously!
Xu Yu's brows suddenly turned red with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Jiang Yubai somehow got wind of the abundant grain in the northwest and took a fancy to the grain you have. But he couldn't think of a suitable way to contact you, so he just pulled off this clumsy trick."
This trick of inflicting pain on one's own flesh is too fake.
The kind of fake that can be seen through at a glance.
Or perhaps, when Jiang Yubai decided to use this trick to catch Xu Yu in front of him, he didn't expect to be able to hide it.
This person doesn't want to hide it at all.
He came here with a clear purpose.
Xu Yu brought the person into Qingyang County and abandoned him. The unconscious person woke up on the spot and caught up without any delay.
In the inn, Jiang Yubai, wearing blood-stained clothes, began to talk about his childhood, and all he talked about was the brotherhood between us.
Xu Yu wanted to throw the man out, but the good man collapsed on the spot and blurted out: Then I can only go to Beijing.
Sang Zhixia thought he had seen a lot of the world, but at this moment he couldn't help but be shocked by the ferocity of killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of his own.
Sang Zhixia said with mixed feelings, "Going to the capital to file a complaint? What on earth was he thinking?"
The Xu family was exiled here. According to the law, they could not move freely outside, nor could they live too comfortably. Everyone should go to the mines to work.
If people in the imperial city knew about the Xu family's prosperity in the northwest, it would indeed cause a lot of trouble.
But in the Royal Jade Butterfly, King Hui's only son had already turned into a skeleton more than ten years ago.
He has been dead for more than ten years, but now he is alive and kicking and clamoring to come to the capital. Isn't he worried at all about the crime of deceiving the emperor?
Xu Yu sneered in anger: "Maybe you're really tired of living?"
"What's even more annoying is that I really don't dare to let him make a fuss."
Jiang Yubai was so filial that he could move heaven and earth and take his father in Lingnan to the underworld.
But Xu Yu couldn't just ignore it.
The Xu family, with so many people, young and old, has finally settled down in the northwest, and the things he is doing are barely making any progress.
At this time, he couldn't possibly follow Jiang Yubai, who was crazy and crazy.
Sang Zhixia understood Xu Yu's implication after a moment's thought, and her brows slowly furrowed uncontrollably.
"mean."
First, he quietly set his eyes on the Xu family's things, and then, in revenge, he took out a cruel tactic of dying together, in order to force Xu Yu to board his pirate ship.
But……
Sang Zhixia grasped Xu Yu's hand with her fingertips feeling cold, and whispered inaudibly, "Lingnan is a complete fiefdom, belonging to King Hui alone."
"Under normal circumstances, even if the crops are poor and the harvest is limited, the land and water of a place can support the people. If there are no natural disasters or man-made disasters, it is enough to support the people of a place."
But what Jiang Yubai wanted was grain seeds and food, as much as possible, the more the better.
These things are definitely not meant to be eaten by the people in Lingnan.
The only group with the greatest demand for food is the army.
But as far as Sang Zhixia knew, a feudal king could only have 3,000 private troops.
If the number exceeds three thousand, it will be considered as treason.
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