Chen Kan started grilling kebabs again, and this time the diner was Cao Guogong Li Jinglong.
As we all know, the relationship between Li Jinglong and Chen Kan had completely broken down when Chen Kan left Jinyiwei.
So this time Li Jinglong came here specially, and of course he wouldn't come here to celebrate Chen Kan's birthday.
Chen Kan squatted in front of the brazier, constantly turning the meat skewers in his hands. The sizzling and oily meat skewers made Li Jinglong squatting opposite and couldn't help but feel a surge of Adam's apple.
Chen Kan didn't seem to see the look of expectation on his face, and asked without raising his head: "So, your Majesty has given the matter to the Duke to take full responsibility this time?"
Li Jinglong stared at the skewers, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded in response: "There is no way, Ji Gang is going to Nu'er Gandusi, and he has taken away most of the Jinyiwei people. Apart from the three major battalions, the capital's available manpower is only Only the nobles have three melons and two dates under their command."
Li Jinglong's voice did not fluctuate at all. Chen Kan was a little surprised and said: "Your Majesty, you don't even have the last bit of kindness?"
"Military power has been a very sensitive thing since ancient times. Sooner or later it will be returned to His Majesty. Is it any wonder?"
After casually responding, Li Jinglong suddenly frowned and said, "Turn it over quickly, it's burnt."
Chen Kan's face twitched, and he impatiently handed the kebab in his hand to Li Jinglong: "Take it and eat it, and leave as soon as you finish."
Chen Kan's bad tone did not cause any irritation to Li Jinglong. He reached out to take the skewers and put them in his mouth: "It's delicious, it's delicious. I have to say, Chen Kan, you still have something to eat in the kitchen. This time After finishing the matter, are you interested in becoming a cook in my father-in-law's house?"
Chen Kan glanced at Li Jinglong with disgust: "As the head of the noble family, are you not unwilling at all?"
"Not willing?"
"There is nothing to be unwilling to do. Anyway, Your Majesty will not miss my father-in-law's glory and wealth. I am his nephew."
Regarding Chen Kan's doubts, Li Jinglong showed a completely indifferent attitude.
Chen Kan couldn't help but remind him: "It's my cousin, my nephew."
"so what?"
Li Jinglong finished the skewers quickly and didn't care at all even if he was burned to the point of making a hissing sound.
Throwing the bamboo stick in his hand aside casually, Li Jinglong glanced at Chen Kan: "I'm gone. All in all, things this time are very complicated. I would like to warn you, if there is anything unclean, you should report it to the police immediately. Your Majesty, please confess."
After saying that, regardless of Chen Kan's ugly expression, he turned around and walked away.
After watching Li Jinglong walk away, Chen Kan turned around and returned to the room without saying a word. After finding a comfortable position to lie down, he began to digest the news that Li Jinglong brought today.
Zhu Di actually planned to take this opportunity to take back military power. Is this the beginning of complete centralization of power?
This is not good news.
Chen Kan frowned slightly. He always felt that Zhu Di's steps were a bit too big.
The fake death plan was the first one he came up with.
In his view, when concentrating on one thing, it is best not to be distracted by other things.
While encircling and suppressing the White Lotus cultists and Jingnan's orphans, Zhu Di also wanted to seize military power. Isn't he afraid of doing both things in a split?
What did Zhu Di think?
Could it be that his arrival allowed him to secure his throne in advance and his mentality expanded?
Do you want to give him some advice?
Chen Kan was caught in a dilemma.
If he were to persuade him, given Zhu Di's headstrong character, I'm afraid it wouldn't have any effect.
If you don't persuade, if someone notices it in advance, both things may be in vain.
The mental struggle made Chen Kan feel a little tired.
He stared at the ceiling blankly and fell into a deep sleep.
It was the end of November. After more than three months of training, Chen Kan's body had almost recovered. From the appearance point of view, there was no difference from before the coma.
As for the condition of the internal organs, only Chen Kan himself knew.
After several months of isolation from the outside world, his mentality became much more stable.
The sky is foggy today, and a thin layer of crystal clear ice floats on top of the large water tank in the yard.
Chen Kan bent down, fished out the ice cubes from the water tank, put them in his mouth and chewed them making a crunching sound.
The moment he swallowed the ice cube, he couldn't help but shudder.
Chen Kan couldn't help but sigh as he tightened the fox fur cloak around his body.
This is the second winter he has spent since coming to Daming. This year's winter seems to be not much different from last year, but Chen Kan knows that this year is colder than last year.
As for the reason, the ice in the water tank is thicker than last year.
Behind Chen Kan, the three patron women were still following him. In addition, there was also a young eunuch who could convey news from the capital to Chen Kan at any time.
Now Chen Kan has given up on the unrealistic idea of training his patron's wife, and instead started studying calligraphy and painting.
After all, a person's life is a bit boring, and he always has to find something to kill his time.
The planning of any matter requires time to be promoted, and the time spent waiting for the plan to ferment is really difficult.
In particular, Zhu Di, who was good at making decisions, added the issue of confiscating military power into the plan, which added a few twists to the already planned plan.
Thinking of this, Chen Kan couldn't help but sigh again.
After all, the little eunuch was a disabled person, and he didn't realize what he was doing. He just turned a blind eye when he saw Chen Kan sighing.
Chen Kan had no choice but to turn around and told the young eunuch: "Your Majesty, you can proceed to the next step."
The little eunuch nodded, opened his mouth and let out a meaningless cry, then turned and left.
Chen Kan suddenly remembered that the little eunuch couldn't do Peng Ke because he had no tongue.
.....
I don’t know when a rumor began to circulate in the capital. It was said that the young Marquis who had been dead for several months and had not yet been buried was actually not dead.
Instead, it turned from light to dark and was hidden where others could not see it.
The purpose is to wipe out the entire White Lotus Sect on the day of his funeral.
No one knows where this news first came out, because when the people heard the news, basically the entire capital already knew it.
But when the news reached the court, Zhu Di just scolded him for making nonsense and ignored it.
Whether Chen Kan is dead or not, the officials know very well.
Especially those officials who went to express condolences to Chen Kan stood up and denounced the person who spread this rumor, scolding this person for his evil intentions.
The young marquis is a hero when he sacrifices his life for his country. How can he be involved in such conspiracies? Isn't this slander?
But the officials above the court were undoubtedly at a numerical disadvantage compared to the people in the capital.
The more people spread the word, the more the news will become true.
In particular, many people were already lamenting Chen Kan's death, and now they suddenly heard such remarks. Even if they said they didn't believe it, they still hoped in their hearts that it was true.
As a result, the news quickly spread around the capital at a speed no less than that of the news of Chen Kan's death.
This news is naturally Chen Kan's next plan.
In fact, Chen Kan's plan to cheat his death was very simple, and it could even be said that it had no technical content.
He first faked his death and relied on Shilin controlled by Fang Xiaoru to quickly spread the news of his death to every corner of the Ming Dynasty.
Then Zhu Di ordered the convening of the Water and Land Dharma Conference to provide a legitimate channel for those who wanted to go to Beijing to see the fate of Chen Kan, his enemy.
The next step is to control people's hearts. People who often kill people know that most murderers will return to the scene after committing the crime to watch their masterpieces in order to gain a perverted sense of accomplishment hidden deep in their hearts.
In other words, as Chen Kan was the first high-ranking nobleman of the Ming Dynasty to die under the plans of the White Lotus Sect, the people of the White Lotus Sect would definitely be unable to restrain their desire to see their final results.
And this alone is definitely not enough. Whether it is the White Lotus Sect or Jingnan's orphans, they can choose to send their spies to watch, and then feed back the results to the top management.
The real big shots may not be there.
Therefore, the news that Zhu Di would also come to the Water and Land Dharma Assembly in person to pray for the heroes who had died in the Ming Dynasty over the years was just right.
The purpose of the White Lotus Sect is to change the dynasty in order to avenge the emperor Taizu for crossing the river, demolishing the bridge and unloading the mill and killing the donkey. The purpose of Jingnan's orphans is to assassinate the tyrant Zhu Di and restore the political lineage of Jianwen.
Therefore, the news that Zhu Di will appear at the Water and Land Dharma Conference will definitely affect the hearts of their senior officials.
Even if it is to increase the success rate of the assassination, they will definitely send important people to Beijing to take charge.
But... just getting rid of some of the backbone is not enough for Chen Kan.
Chen Kan's goal is to catch all these maggots in one go.
Thus, the third step of the plan came into being.
By passing on the news that Chen Kan faked his death, he interfered with the decision-making of the White Lotus Sect and Jingnan's orphans.
Just ask, a person who was determined to be dead for a long time suddenly came back to life.
How would a normal person react after hearing this news?
Except for those who have special feelings for Chen Kan, they will definitely think this is nonsense.
But the White Lotus Sect and Jingnan's orphans were Chen Kan's enemies, and Chen Kan didn't believe that they would think this matter was nonsense.
The greater possibility is that they will regard this news as Zhu Di's conspiracy to lure them to Beijing.
After all, the resurrection of a person from the dead can still arouse people's curiosity.
And will the White Lotus Sect retreat after seeing through Zhu Di's conspiracy?
Won't!
They will definitely use their plan to arrange for more people to come to Beijing, and then use this to catch Zhu Di off guard and strangle him to death.
Don't you want to lure us to Beijing to consume part of our backbone?
This time I will bring everyone here to see if you, Zhu Di, have the ability to swallow me in one gulp.
The above is the entire process of Chen Kan's death plan.
Chen Kan's death was on the first level, and the Water and Land Law Society was on the second level. Zhu Di revealed to the White Lotus Sect that he was on the third level, and the White Lotus Sect thought they were on the fourth level.
But they didn't know that the person they thought was dead, Chen Kan, standing on the first level, would be Lao Liu standing in the atmosphere.
When Zhu Di's reply reached Chen Kan, stating that there had been frequent personnel changes in the strongholds targeted by Jin Yiwei, Chen Kan finally realized the joy of being the sixth child.
It turns out that it’s so fun to hide behind people’s backs and plot against others.
No wonder the real bosses never show up easily.
"It seems that I have to find a way to hide behind the scenes in the future."
Lying on the bed, Chen Kan seemed to have unlocked new skills, constantly making various assumptions and then overturning them himself.
He decided that from now on he would hide in the shadows and never act arrogantly.
...
In the middle of a certain section of the Yangtze River, on a swaying awning boat, the sound of lustful waves could be heard.
On the deck outside the ship, a girl was covering her ears with her hands, a look of boredom on her face.
Beside the side of the ship, a woman with a pale face sat cross-legged on the deck, holding a scroll of Buddhist scriptures and looking attentively. She seemed completely unaffected by the lewd sounds coming from behind.
A young boy with a red face moved away from the house in the middle of the ship and ran to the bow of the ship, trying his best to hide his embarrassment from others.
Finally, the girl couldn't help it any longer, trotted up to the woman, and asked dissatisfiedly: "Miss, are you just going to let them do this and not take care of them?"
The woman raised her head and said calmly: "Why do you care?"
Hearing this, the girl stamped her feet: "But they are really noisy like this."
"Just make a noise."
The woman responded and turned her attention to the scriptures again.
When the girl saw this, she could only glare at the room hatefully, and then angrily ran to the bow of the ship.
But here at the bow of the ship, there is also a young man with strong blood.
"You, get out of here!"
The girl didn't give him any face. She stretched out a green finger and scolded him, then pushed the boy aside.
The boy was already in his prime of life, so he could only be stimulated by the lewd sounds coming from the room. Now he was crowded together with the girl, and his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver.
The girl was a little confused: "What's wrong with you?"
The young man was a little embarrassed, then turned to leave.
But the girl seemed to have suddenly figured out something, and couldn't help but laugh.
Then he grabbed the young man's crotch.
"You, what are you going to do?"
The young man was suddenly grabbed by someone, and he didn't dare to move.
The girl smiled charmingly: "Follow me."
"I......"
The young man glanced at the woman not far away with some embarrassment, and when he saw that she didn't respond, fearless courage suddenly emerged in his heart.
"Just leave."
The woman on the deck noticed the movement here, she just raised her head and glanced over there, then lowered her head.
Soon, a more violent shouting sounded from the stern of the ship, as if in revenge...
At this moment, a small boat suddenly appeared and blocked the boat.
The woman raised her head, and a numb-looking man had climbed onto the bow of the boat.
The man seemed unable to hear the muffled sound coming from behind the boat. He just brought the news, turned around and jumped out of the boat and drove away.
The woman opened the paper and read it. After a moment, a strange color suddenly flashed across her face.
"Fake death?"
After muttering something to herself, the woman shook her head again, and then a smile appeared on her lips: "Zhu Di, Zhu Di, aren't you afraid of being stretched to death?"
