Huang Shang, who returned to the royal palace, did not be scolded by his ancestors as usual, and there was not much turmoil in the entire royal palace.

What Huang Shang did not expect was that Butler Jia and Zhu Sheng were waiting for Huang Shang in Beiyuan early in the morning. Seeing that Huang Shang looked listless and had a bad spirit, they looked at each other without saying a word. After Huang Shang entered the house to rest, they surrounded Xiaoshuang who followed Huang Shang back and asked.

But Xiaoshuang just lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes without saying anything, which made the two monks confused and had no choice but to wait in Beiyuan.

Huang Shang slept until afternoon before getting up again. When he pushed the door and walked out of the house, he saw Xiaoshuang kneeling outside the door. Huang Shang felt angry and prepared to close the door and rest again.

"Criminal...Criminal..." After seeing Huang Shang in the distance, Butler Jia hurried over.

"Butler Jia, what's the matter?" Huang Shang had no choice but to go out, and Xiaoshuang still knelt at the door.

"The prince, the ancestor went outside the city to worship the ancestors. Besides, the ancestor gave the order, and the prince would be the leader in the future, so...so..."

"Uh... go to the living room." Huang Shang walked towards the living room by himself.

The so-called living room is the place to receive guests. Beiyuan does not have a large and luxurious reception place like the royal palace, because it was originally designed for living, but a room facing the garden was opened not far from Huang Shang's residence.

"General Zhu, why don't you first..." Butler Jia said to Zhu Sheng at the door.

"Uh... Butler Jia, come first, report to the prince first." Zhu Sheng turned his head and looked at Xiao Shuang who was still kneeling in the distance, thinking about something.

"Criminal, I need to report some things to you, and I need to make a decision." After sitting down, Butler Jia leaned towards Huang Shang, and looked around at the same time:

"Old Zhang's affairs... are full of clues. Old Zhang's death was secretly attacked by one of his servants. No wonder I sent someone to keep staring at the Zhang family and didn't notice it."

Butler Jia told Huang Shang the whole story about Mr. Zhang, and finally asked again: "What should we do?"

"Is that man named...Liu Sanlan caught him?" Huang Shang asked.

"Well, in the government office, Lord Liu said to ask the prince first what to do?"

"He told me? Why did he do this?" Huang Shang continued to ask. He suddenly came into contact with this matter and didn't know too much.

"Criminal." Butler Jia looked around mysteriously, then leaned over and came to Huang Shang's ear and muttered.

"Is that so? Is there any evidence? If there is no evidence, just based on the one-sided words of him, it may be difficult to make a conclusion. Besides, this kind of thing is better to believe that it is not true than it is true, otherwise it will cause great harm to the reputation of the royal family." Huang Shang took a deep breath.

"Now Liu Sanlan only confessed that A Guang gave him a lot of silver and asked him to kill Mr. Zhang. A Guang gave him a total of five hundred taels. After Mr. Zhang's death, all the servants of the Zhang family dispersed. Liu Sanlan was addicted to gambling. He actually went to the casino to gamble, which attracted the attention of the yamen."

"And I have also sent someone to know that A Guang is a good-for-market person. Because he has a strong strength, he has been working as a good-for-nothing. Where is the good-for-nothing? Uh... Prince, good-nothing is opened by the royal palace... I don't know why the prince is not surprised, there are many under the royal palace."

Huang Shang was not surprised that his prince was a fake. Besides, why did the Changxi Prince's Mansion, which had no military power and no political power, have so much wealth? Apart from the fixed rent paid by tenants every year, weren't they all earned through these methods? Although these businesses in the Prince's Mansion also have deception and fraud in a sense.

"We continued to check A Guang, who had been a bandit before, and later came here after meeting Xiaoxia. He had been a bandit in Zhongwei. As for Xiaoxia... he has always been the princess' maid."

"Um..." Huang Shang just replied softly: "What decision do you want me to make?"

"Uh... are you catching A Guang? Even..." Butler Jia hesitated and looked at Huang Shang's face.

"I said, don't mess around when the evidence is insufficient. As for Liu Sanlan, let it go first." Huang Shang said lightly. He had already realized what Housekeeper Jia meant, that was to capture A Guang and even Princess Zhou's maid Xiaoxia.

"Let me go?" Butler Jia was stunned.

"Well, why bother to alert the snake?!"

"Oh, I understand, the prince is wise, the prince is preparing to go on a long-term basis... Hehe, my subordinate recruitment office. There is another thing about the prince. Just now, the prince sent someone to come and asked me to send some people to the Changxi Prince's Mansion. There is not enough people there." Butler Jia smiled and naturally knew the reason for his old fry.

"The villa is used by Wanzhou Prefecture to receive the above. It is usually managed by Wanzhou Prefecture, but there seems to be an important person recently. A few days ago, the King of Zhennan and Duke Ning lived there, but I didn't see Lord Liu sending someone to ask for people. Why did you suddenly ask the royal palace to send his servants over here today and say you should look handsome." Butler Jia muttered.

"You can just settle this kind of thing yourself, don't ask me." Huang Shang narrowed his eyes and suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "Do you want a maid? Send Xiaoshuang over there."

"Xiao Shuang? This is not something you can do...oh, okay." Butler Jia hurriedly stopped seeing Huang Shang's gloomy face.

"General Zhu, you have to be careful later. The prince is not in a good mood today... today." Butler Jia muttered to Zhu Sheng at the door and left in a hurry.

"See the prince." Zhu Shengfu hurriedly bowed as soon as he entered the house.

"General Zhu is exempted from the ceremony, please sit down." Huang Shang returned the ceremony to Zhu Sheng.

"Criminal, I'll just say it briefly and leave soon." Butler Jia's warning obviously worked. Zhu Sheng was ready to cut the mess quickly and fight quickly.

"The recruitment of soldiers is so smooth. After just a few days, there are almost tens of thousands of people coming to the call... In addition, after Commander Xiaojiao left, martial arts people came one after another, and they all clamored to join Hu Ji Camp..."

"Hu Jiying?" Huang Shang frowned and interrupted Zhu Sheng's words.

"Yes, the name given by Commander Xiaojiao said that he wanted to form a special team with extremely strong combat power."

"Because Hu Jiying has the highest monthly silver, everyone is clamoring to join. According to the standards set by Xiaojiao, there are still more than 400 people passing the exam. There are so many people, and they are all martial arts people, I'm worried..."

"Are you worried about silver or safety? Go, Hu Jiying can have it." Huang Shang was thinking in his heart. Suo Jiao seemed to have doubts about him. From the fact that she named the new army, she could see a clue.

"Then I know, I will say goodbye." Zhu Sheng said that and was about to get up and leave.

"General Zhu, do you know about Zhongwei?" Huang Shang suddenly asked him.

"What is the prince's referring to?" Zhu Sheng stopped and turned around and asked.

"Whatever, I just want to know more."

"Zhongwei Kingdom..., I came to the royal palace twenty years ago and happened to know a little about the matter of the Central Kingdom, but it was not too detailed. Zhongwei Kingdom is a small country, sandwiched between Huatian Kingdom and Lu Kingdom. The Huangdi surnamed Chu before, and he had a good relationship with my Huatian Kingdom, especially with the Changxi Prince's Mansion. Do you know why?"

"Because Lu suddenly sent troops to invade Zhongwei, it was Lao Changxi, the prince who was ordered to lead troops and fought fiercely for several months before driving Lu's army out of Zhongwei and retaining Chu Laoer's position."

Huang Shang knew a little about this matter, and his ancestor told him that Zhu Shizhen led his army to fight against Lu, and the battlefield of the war was in Zhongwei. As for the reason, his ancestor did not say it.

"After the old prince led his troops out of Zhongwei, he thought Zhongwei would calm down, but he didn't expect something happened in Zhongwei."

"Old man Chu has a queen who is extremely charming and beautiful. When I went to Zhongwei with the prince, I saw this queen. It was indeed..... It was so ecstatic. Hehe, prince, I'm far from it. At that time, Empress Ning was only twenty years old and had a son with Old Man Chu."

Queen Ning?

Chu Ning family?

Could it be that Empress Ning had met this morning, the woman in front of Xiaoshuang? But judging from her down-and-out situation, it has nothing to do with Huang Shang at all.

"Old Chu loves this queen very much, but Old Chu is old, and he has a half-brother who is in his prime and is named Dafeng Marquis. It is the Dafeng Mansion among the only few prefectures in Zhongwei, which is located at the junction of Lu on the south side of Zhongwei and on the border of Lu on the south side of Zhongwei."

"This brother Chu's younger brother is not a good-for-nothing lamp. Compared with Mr Chu, he is not only younger, but also strong, tall and big, and has military power."

"It is said that once, his emperor brother entered the palace and got along with his Empress Ning, but after all, the paper could not keep the fire. Old Chu found out later and was very angry. Someone gave Chu's advice and designed to trick his emperor brother into Lu Gong. It was the capital of Zhongwei. It was actually a small place and was ready to capture it."

"But somehow, the news was leaked. Chu Bozhe, the elder brother of Chu, escaped and returned to Dafeng to rebel."

"Someone said that the person who leaked the news was the Queen Ning, but no one knew the real situation. Later, the small Zhongwei Kingdom began to fight, but what was unexpected was that Old Chu was defeated and captured and killed, while his son and another brother led people to escape into the mountains."

"Um...!" Huang Shang just nodded, he had probably guessed eight or nine points.

"It's the Empress Ning, although she was in vain with Chu Bozhi, she felt ashamed of Chu Bozhi after being killed. After giving birth to a daughter, she disappeared. No one knew her whereabouts. Many people suspected that the daughter born to Empress Ning was the daughter of Chu Bozhi, the current emperor's brother of Zhongwei. Of course, these are all rumors."

"Um..." Huang Shang catered to him again.

"I know all this. As for the fact that when the Zhongwei Civil War, Lu supported Chu Bozhi, but Huatian Kingdom only supported it secretly. Of course, it was mainly because of the Changxi Prince's Mansion. I don't know the reason why Chu Laoer was defeated in the end. Maybe my Huatian Kingdom didn't want to participate in the Zhongwei Kingdom anymore. Maybe my emperor had bigger plans."

"Criminal, I'm going back to Pancheng, where I'm recruiting and training soldiers."

"Is that right? Let me accompany you for a while. It's okay. Are you still worried about safety when General Zhu is here?" Huang Shang saw Zhu Sheng staring at him and explained quickly. He was so frustrated in the royal palace that he followed Zhu Sheng to Pancheng for some breathing.
Chapter completed!