Shangguan Ziqi followed Master Huihai into the imperial study again.
"Amitabha, I greet the emperor."
"Master Huihai, please don't be so polite. I wonder why you have come to the palace to see me?" the emperor asked directly.
I also took a look at Shangguan Ziqi.
As soon as he saw Shangguan Ziqi come in, he guessed that what the old monk wanted to say might be related to Prince Rong's Mansion.
"Your Majesty, Master Mingwu, who was traveling from the Huguo Temple, wrote letters back to me. Among them, there is a letter specially written to Your Majesty. Please take a look." Master Huihai took out a letter with fire knees on it from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the emperor respectfully.
"Oh? A letter from Master Mingwu to me?" The emperor was even more puzzled.
Master Mingwu is already eighty years old. He is an accomplished monk at Huguo Temple and also the oldest monk.
A decade ago, the third generation Prince Rong and Master Puxian of Huguo Temple were good friends. They often played chess together in the meditation room of Huguo Temple, and each game would last the entire day.
This matter is recorded in the royal family files.
But I don’t know what the two of them talked about when they played chess together.
At that time, Master Puxian was already ten years old.
When he was in his seventies, he accepted a closed disciple, who was Master Mingwu.
It can be said that he is the person who is still alive and has the closest relationship with the third generation Prince Rong.
The emperor took the letter and read it in front of the two of them.
As his eyes moved across the letter paper, the emperor's expression gradually became brighter and brighter.
At the end he even burst out laughing.
"Okay, okay, okay."
"Your Majesty, is this a happy event?" Shangguan Ziqi was happy too when he saw the emperor so happy.
"Hui Hai, Zi Qi, this is really good news. Master Ming Wu sent a letter saying that he had recently read a fortune and it was predicted that someone in our Wei could open the iron box, and that person was from Prince Rong's Mansion.
Canglan must hold steady in this battle with Dawei first, and then launch a massive counterattack after opening the iron box. They will surely win, and can also gain peace for another ten years or even longer.
You must keep this matter secret and not tell anyone, otherwise it will attract spies from the Canglan Kingdom to assassinate you."
The emperor is really happy.
The iron box that the old Prince Rong and his wife prepared had a code on it, saying that only the destined person could open it.
There are no clues left, and only the destined person can open it.
The agreement signed by the Emperor and Prince Rong with Canglan Kingdom was that the two countries would not engage in large-scale war within ten years. But ten years had long passed, and in the following ten years, Canglan Kingdom frequently provoked Wei, but was afraid of the iron box, so it did not invade on a large scale.
However, there have been many wars of varying sizes over the past decade, but at most only about 10,000 troops have been deployed.
The Wei Dynasty had a large population, and they always relied on their numbers to repel the enemy.
Shangguan Ziqi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he frowned again.
Now there is only their eldest wife left in the palace. Could it be that the second wife was kicked out?
If that's the case, it would be better not to know the news.
"Did Master Mingwu say who can open it?" Shangguan Ziqi had to find out.
"Master Mingwu didn't say. He said that he might be able to return to the Huguo Temple in about a month, and then he will come to the palace to take a look." The emperor was also helpless.
The person is not from Beijing, so it's impossible to find him and ask him properly.
"Hui Hai, do you know where Master Ming Wu is now?"
"Your Majesty, I don't know. The letter was sent back by a escort. The escort came back from the southwestern border town, but Master Mingwu is a wanderer and has no fixed place. If he goes there now, he will probably have left long ago."
"Well, I hope he can return to Beijing soon. In this case, Ziqi, you should take the iron box back to the palace today." The emperor thought for a while and made a decision.
The last time Cao Jinyu brought the fake one back to Beijing, he spread the news that the iron box was missing.
Then the emperor asked to bring it into the palace for safekeeping.
In order to make the news reliable, the prince took out all the fake ones and sent them to the palace together, including the real one.
In this way, the enemy's spies can immediately determine whether the news is true or false.
The spies of Canglan Country made a fake one, and Prince Rong sent one into the palace at once, so the real one must be inside.
This news spread quickly to Canglan, so Canglan's attack slowed down.
They dared not advance further after capturing just one city.
Just a little provocation from time to time.
"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty."
The emperor asked Eunuch Hai to bring all the iron boxes to the imperial study.
He is going to pass the official chess exam and can recognize which one is the real one from the two at a glance.
But the emperor himself couldn't tell the truth from the false.
The fake one is made to look like the real one.
Shangguan Ziqi only needs to weigh each piece in his hand to know which one is the real one.
He has been playing with it since he was a child and is very familiar with it.
"Are you sure the one you chose is the real one?" the emperor asked doubtfully.
"If the emperor doesn't believe it, you can ask someone to open them all. Ziqi can guarantee with his own life that those are fake." Shangguan Ziqi was very confident.
If they can't even divide the ancestral treasures of Prince Rong's Mansion, how can they be considered the direct descendants of Prince Rong's Mansion?
Shangguan Ziqi returned to Prince Bei's palace with the iron box in a daze.
The prince also came home at this time.
Look, my son brought that thing back.
Ask why.
Shangguan Ziqi then told him what happened in the palace.
The prince also fell into deep thought.
Is there anyone in the palace who can open it?
who?
Zishu and Chaoyang have tried countless times without any results, so it definitely isn't them.
It is even more impossible for someone to play chess since childhood.
And the same goes for himself.
"Has your wife tried it?" the prince asked after thinking for a while.
"I played with it during the first few days of my search for a 㳔." Shangguan Ziqi answered truthfully.
Of course he didn't tell the result. It must have been opened, otherwise he would have told it long ago.
"Put it in the main courtyard first, and ask your wife to bring the children to the main courtyard often to play with their aunt. Put the iron box in the living room and let the children play with it. Maybe they will open it by chance one day.
The prince has wild ideas.
Shangguan Ziqi wanted to roll his eyes after hearing this. What's the difference between this and taking a chance?
They have tried this kind of thing countless times over the generations.
The current father has carried out this tradition on several children who are only a little over one year old.
It's a pity he could think of that.
"Father, isn't this too much of a joke?"
"Then what good ideas do you have? Master Mingwu hasn't come back yet. You don't know who can open our palace. Now only the four children have not played." The prince said as a matter of course.
"Okay. Father is right." Shangguan Ziqi couldn't refute it.
"Has Concubine Xi ever tried it?" Shangguan Ziqi suddenly thought of this and asked.
"You tried it when you first married into the palace, but it didn't open, so you never touched it again."
"Then let Concubine Lu try a little more."
"Well. Just leave it there and let your wife try it too."
Neither the father nor the son wanted to let Princess Nanhua try it as well.
Until now, Nanhua County Lady had never touched the iron box. She had only seen it through Yu Chaoyang's courtyard.
Shangguan Ziqi returned to the Qi Yayuan and saw Yu Yuanzheng, Ding Huiniang and Ziyue feeding the three children.
My heart softened immediately.
At night, they washed up and lay down.
Yu Yuanzheng looked at Shangguan Ziqi with a mysterious smile.
"Madam, why are you looking at me like that? Are you thinking about something?" Shangguan Ziqi smiled with amorous feelings.
"Go away, you're the one who wants it. I have something to tell you." Yu Yuanzheng pinched him.
"Madam, please tell me what you want. I will definitely agree to it." Shangguan Ziqi grabbed her dishonest hand.
"Is that what you said?"
"I said it." Shangguan Ziqi doted on his wife to no end, and she agreed without hesitation even knowing what was going on.
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