"Your Majesty doesn't know something. This Lu Zuo is very secretive. It's hard to see him showing his true nature to people close to him, let alone me, a servant. He always treats his servants with aloofness. We all feel that He is both kind and distant, and his mood and thoughts cannot be guessed by the servants. Even if we do something wrong or get into trouble, he is usually slow and calm." As Old Pan said, he suddenly remembered something, "By the way, he It seems that he only talks and laughs when he is with his brother Lu Renxiang and his wife, Princess Qiongqian, but at this time he mostly drives our servants away."
After hearing this, Liu Xingyuan was a little unhappy and asked: "Based on your understanding of Lu Zuo, what is the reason why he thanked the guests behind closed doors this time?"
"Although Lu Zuo usually hides his secrets, he is quite upright. He tried his best to overthrow the puppet guards, but he retired successfully. This can be seen. Recently, many of his former generals have come to visit. According to the slave, , and were all persuaded to quit one by one by his apprentices. I guess there are two reasons why he did this!"
"tell me the story!"
"First, he just wants to completely cut off the trivial matters in the court, no longer interfere, and focus on recuperating. Second, he also wants to do this so that His Majesty can take over the throne smoothly, so that those who always look forward to his return to the DPRK will wholeheartedly assist His Majesty. you."
Liu Xingyuan seemed not very satisfied with this answer, "Is there any other reason?"
Lao Pan felt a little surprised. In the past, Liu Xingyuan was a cowardly person. Why was his personality so different now? Could power really change a person? Logically speaking, Lu Zuo made the greatest contribution in this "Qingjun side" mutiny. It was absolutely easy for him to become the emperor. Even if Lu Zuo regretted it now and wanted to pull Liu Xingyuan from the throne, it would be very easy. Not only that, Lu Zuo also used his The way of thanking guests showed that Liu Xingyuan was not grateful, but he still doubted him. But Lao Pan just thought about it, and still laughed and said: "It's hard to say whether Lu Zuo has any ambitions for the throne, but his subordinates will definitely not give up. Now his closest best friends Lu Xiuyuan and Qin He has just left the capital, and I see that his other confidant, Huo Yan, is dissatisfied because Lu Zuo withdrew from the fight for the throne. He wanted to see Lu Zuo again and again, but was turned away by Lu Zuo, but he also You can’t never see those confidants, right?”
Liu Xingyuan's heart trembled, his eyes closed slightly, and he had thousands of thoughts in his mind, but they were interrupted by Meng Silang.
"Your Majesty, I have something to ask for!" Meng Silang stood outside the hall and said with clasped fists.
Liu Xingyuan was about to summon Meng Silang. Now he came and asked him to come in quickly. As soon as Meng Silang entered the hall, Liu Xingyuan scolded him, "Look at the good things you have done... Where have you been these past few days? You can't even see anyone. The people in the official department said, have you taken sick leave?"
Meng Silang was about to say something when he glanced at Lao Pan and said, "Master Huihang is here too, how polite you are!"
Lao Pan clasped his hands knowingly and resigned, "I'm leaving first..."
When Meng Silang saw Master Huihang walking away, he continued: "I have followed Lu Xiuyuan and the others in the past few days, and they have really returned to Fengji Mountain!"
"Sure?"
Meng Silang nodded firmly, "Now that Lu Zuo's biggest arm has been given away, the only one left is Huo Yan."
"Huo Quan?" Liu Xingyuan was furious when he thought of Huo Quan. Back in Lanzhou and Shanzhou, this boy had embarrassed himself a lot, but now he had to arrange a champion general for him. If he didn't have some talents, , he would have been put in jail long ago.
When Meng Silang saw that His Majesty was silent, he said, "We heard from the informants that Huo Jin came to see Marshal Lu every day, but Marshal Lu turned him away every day."
After Liu Xingyuan was silent for a moment, he suddenly remembered the poisoning of the ginseng soup, and angrily said: "I asked you something, but you haven't answered yet. How could you poison Lu Zuo's medicine? This kind of behavior is too much. It’s so clumsy…”
"This..." Meng Silang felt aggrieved, but he still knelt down and admitted his mistake, "Wei Chen is aware of his guilt. He was devoted to sharing your majesty's worries and did not think carefully. Please punish your majesty."
Liu Xingyuan saw that he was sensible, so he didn't want to pursue it further, "Okay, get up... It's not entirely your fault. I was too impatient at that time, and you did a good job. Now Lu Zuo has no intention of confronting me, and he also It’s not a big threat anymore…”
"Your Majesty..." Meng Silang suddenly interrupted, "Although Lu Zuo has no intention of fighting for power, his old subordinates are unknown. You see, there were so many people standing on Lu Zuo's side a few days ago. Although the court said There are many idiots like Xue Jide in China, but I’m afraid there will be one more idiot like Huo Yan..."
"Huo Yan..." Liu Xingyuan muttered the name again, with murderous intent in his eyes.
When Meng Silang saw that the opportunity had come, he was very happy, because only when His Majesty needs him to handle more difficult things, can he truly become His Majesty's confidant, "Your Majesty, everyone knows now that three of Lu Zuo's four most reliable people are already there." One of them left him, and the other was Lu Xiuyuan, Qin Fu, and An Shiqing. Three of them have resigned and retired, with the exception of Huo Yan. Although your promotion to his position is just a sinecure, if he really and Lu Zuo has other ideas, and the consequences will be disastrous."
Displeasure suddenly appeared on Liu Xingyuan's face, and he glanced at Meng Silang. Meng Silang knew he was talking too much, so he quickly lowered his head and shut up.
"You don't have to worry about this..." Liu Xingyuan said coldly.
"Your Majesty..." At this time, a servant reported outside the door, "Huo Yan has something important to ask for!"
Meng Silang was stunned and said that Cao Cao had really arrived, and he had really thrown himself into a trap.
"Please come here and talk!"
"According to the decree..."
Huo Yan stepped into the main hall of Xingguo Temple. Although he was a little reluctant, he still saluted Liu Xingyuan and said long live him.
Liu Xingyuan was a little reluctant when he saluted, and felt quite unhappy. Before Huo Qian could say anything, he asked, "How is Brother Huo doing these days? I heard that you always come to see Marshal Lu recently. I wonder how he has been lately." Is that good?"
Huo Yan asked Lu Zuo with a sad face, "Brother Lu doesn't know why he hasn't seen me recently, and I don't know what he is doing..."
"Oh?" Liu Xingyuan pretended to be surprised, "I heard that you are his right-hand man. How could he not see you?"
Seeing the emperor's question, Meng Silang knew that the time had come, and quickly interrupted: "Yes, General Huo is Marshal Lu's right-hand man..."
Huo Yan was already unhappy with Liu Xingyuan's question. When Meng Silang, a surrendered minister, intervened again, he became even more annoyed. He scolded him angrily: "You are just a surrendered minister. You have no right to speak."
Seeing the expressionless expression on the emperor's face, Meng Silang hurriedly replied: "I was originally a minister of the Han Dynasty, and your majesty is the destined emperor. I abandoned the dark and surrendered to the light. How could I be a surrendered minister? But for you people, who is loyal to your majesty or you? Those people from Fengji Mountain?"
