Hearing Chen Hao's report, Li Ming felt a slump in his heart, hurriedly grabbed the reins in Chen Hao's hand, stepped onto the horse and rushed towards the dock. In a short while, he reached the foot of the mountain.

Li Ming hurriedly dismounted and spread the reins to rush up the mountain. At this time, an excited voice suddenly came from behind him: "Wang Wen pays homage to the lord."

The panicked Li Ming didn't pay attention to who was next to him just now. After all, there were too many people greeting him along the way. Now when he heard this, he hurriedly turned around. In front of him, Wang Wen led about thirty fully armed soldiers to kneel in front of Li Ming.

Li Ming was slightly stunned. After all, Wang Wen had only met several times. The most recent one was taken by Cao Bao half a month ago. Although he is now the actual commander of the island guards, Li Ming has never talked to him in detail because he has been very busy. I was really surprised to see him today. He hurriedly stepped forward, helped Wang Wen up, and said, "Don't be too polite, get up."

The soldiers thanked each other in unison: "Thank you lord!" Then they stood up straight towards Li Ming, with uniform movements, looking straight at Li Ming with a high spirit. Although there was an excited look on their faces, they were all very serious, showing a well-trained spirit.

Li Ming knew that the five thousand defenders on the island were Cao Bao's personal soldiers, and they all joined the Medical God Cult in the past six months after they were stationed in the island. When he was considering the doctrine, he had formulated corresponding terms with the help of the mystery and fanaticism of religion, stipulating that anyone who joins the church must contribute everything to the leader. Of course, Li Ming also knew that doing this was not very glorious, but in this ignorant era, it would really not work. Moreover, when he proposed this idea, Lin Lingfeng and the Saint-Hand King present applauded, so he also prompted himself to put this important clause into the doctrine. Now, looking at the excited and fanatical look on the faces of the soldiers in front of him, Li Ming really admired the power of religion.

"Wang Wen, because he is very busy recently, he has no time to talk to you in detail. What? Is there anything to ask me today?" Although he was anxious, Li Ming still showed his amiable demeanor and strived to leave his perfect image.

"Report to the lord, Wang Wen is responsible for patroling the wharf area today, and there is nothing else, but hehe." Wang Wen smiled embarrassedly, pointed to the row of soldiers and said, "I'm going to hide it from you. My brothers have never seen my lord, so I'll take them, hehe, please don't blame them. They really want to see your lord, and they have mentioned it to me a lot?"

"Oh?" Li Ming had to temporarily put down his anxiety and asked with great interest: "As the commander of the island troops, you can actually lead the soldiers to patrol in person. It's really good. Have you been around here just now? Have you noticed anything unusual?"

Wang Wen replied respectfully with his fists: "Report to lord, two big ships have docked just now. I happened to patrol there. When I saw a few people coming up to investigate, they said they asked to see the lord and said they were his good friends. At that time, I didn't dare to neglect them, so I personally took a few people to the mountain. Since you were not in the villa, it was the wife who received them. At that time, the hero Lin was also by his wife, so I came down with confidence."

"Oh?" Li Ming was anxious to go up the mountain just now, so he didn't look at the dock. Now that he heard Wang Wen say this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look over there. Sure enough, there were two large ships parked on the dock not far away, and it seemed to be a little imposing. Li Ming's heart moved and asked hurriedly: "What do those people look like? How old are they?"

Wang Wen hurriedly replied: "There are five people in total, two of them seem to be servants, but they look very strange. They seem to be the yellow gate I have seen in the Kang Prince's Mansion. I seem to have seen the other person, but he has a piece of cloth on his face, and I can't see his face clearly. The remaining two people, one is an old man, who is quite old, and the other is middle-aged, with extraordinary momentum and a graceful and luxurious temperament."

Li Ming was shocked and suddenly became suspicious. He walked on the spot with his hands behind his back, frowned and walked for a few steps. After thinking for a while, he muttered to himself: "It seems that he should be his momentum, but why is he so brave to leave his fiefdom and come here? It's not like his style, it's too risky." Suddenly, he stopped and said to Wang Wen: "There is a task that may be required to be completed. I may have to accompany the person to come down for a while.

When you look at my eyes, if I signal, you will stop people from entering the island in front of me. At that time, I may have to pretend to scold you, but you must hold on and never allow them to go to the inside. If it really doesn't work, you will push the matter to King Kang. After all, in name, you were still sent by King Kang to guard the island. Your responsibility is to protect the safety of the island and prevent all strangers from entering the island. Do you understand? They dare not forcefully break in."

Wang Wen hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, lord, I will definitely sing this opera."

Li Ming smiled slightly, waved at the pair of soldiers, turned around and walked slowly towards the top of the mountain. Behind him, the team of soldiers knelt down together and shouted, "Greatly send me off to the lord!"

Outside the villa, Man'er was looking anxiously towards the foot of the mountain. Seeing Li Ming coming up slowly, she hurriedly went up and whispered to Li Ming: "Young Master, Madam asked me to wait for you here. Is the second prince here?"

The words "The Second Prince" came out of Man'er's mouth, which made Li Ming feel a little awkward, so he couldn't help but look at Man'er with suspicion.

Man'er pouted, glared at him unhappily, and said angrily: "What do you think of me? Whether you believe it or not, I have nothing to do with him. If you don't believe it, go and ask him in person." After that, he gave Li Ming a blank look and turned around to walk towards the villa.

Li Ming was stunned. He didn't expect Man'er to contradict him today. He was a little surprised at this time. However, his guess at the foot of the mountain just now was really right. It was indeed the second prince Li Qing who brought Liu Zhang with him.

However, what important things did Li Qing have that are worth taking such a great risk and traveling in person? You must know that the Tang Dynasty had clear regulations on each prince with fiefdom. Without the emperor's permission, a prince with a back cover would never be allowed to step into the fiefdom of another prince. If the princes want to meet, they must go to the imperial city. They can visit and walk around at will in the prince's mansion in the imperial city. Although they don't know what the purpose of such a regulation is, they probably are still afraid that several princes would collude in private and not do good things. However, today Li Qing took such a great risk to come to King Kang's territory, so he must have very important things.

Considering this, Li Ming still walked into the gate of the villa so slowly. Outside the Tingquan Pavilion, two poor palace guards were standing outside the door. When they saw Li Ming coming in, they saluted him together.

Li Ming nodded slightly, pushed open the door of Tingquan Pavilion and walked in. In Tingquan Pavilion, King Ming Li Qing was sitting in the guest seat, respectfully accompanying Lin Lingfeng, who was sitting in the main seat, saying this. The elderly Liu Zhang was sitting on Li Qing's lower head and listening carefully. Behind Liu Zhang, the masked mysterious man stood.

Li Ming hurriedly rushed forward a few steps, pretended to be surprised and shouted at Li Qing: "Brother! Why are you here? It's so surprising! You actually remembered to visit my brother, and it moved me so much! I'm so happy. Alas, I don't know it's you, otherwise I wouldn't have rushed back so late, so I'll have been waiting for a long time."

Lin Lingfeng stood up, looked at Li Ming with a smile on his back, and then ordered in a helpless tone: "Li Ming, I'm here to receive them for your sake, otherwise I'd beat them out long ago. I can warn you, if you just get together this time, I have no objection, but if you still want to follow him back, be careful I will break your legs!" After saying that, he ignored Li Qing on the side, turned around and walked out of the door.

Li Ming couldn't help but secretly thank Lin Lingfeng. It seemed that the master really knew his thoughts very well and took the responsibility on himself in advance. At the same time, Li Qing died completely and let Li Ming come out of the mountain, which saved Li Ming a lot of verbal talk.

Pretending to look helpless, Li Ming smiled bitterly at Li Qing, shook his head and said, "Brother, I see it. Now the master treats me like a thief. I have to report to him wherever I go. By the way, why did my brother suddenly remember that he came to me? Is there something urgent? You know, it is very dangerous for you to do this. If King Kang finds out, that would be not good."

After hearing Lin Lingfeng's words just now, Li Qing's face obviously showed a look of disappointment. Hearing the concern in Li Ming's words, a smile barely appeared on his face and said, "Brother, brother, I know your hardships. When such a master talked to me just now, my heart was chilling all the time. It's so scary. To be honest, I will never forget the situation in the palace that day. I never thought that a person could scare me like that with his aura alone. At that time, I was really full of fear. The feeling that I had a nightmare for half a month afterwards. It's really rare that you can stay with him all day? Let's not talk about him, brother, you were right just now. Brother, I took a big risk to come to you, but before talking about serious things, brother has to ask you, are we still good brothers?"

"Where are you talking about it?" Li Ming looked very angry and jumped up and shouted, "Where did you say this from? Although we brothers have separated, I have always been thinking about my elder brother. You know, although we haven't been together for a long time, we are the same type of people after all. Not only are we interested in each other, but we have the same ambitions, so I always pretend to be my elder brother in my heart."

Li Qing hurriedly stood up and pressed Li Ming down. At the same time, he quietly looked at the door and said anxiously: "Brother, don't shout! Speak softly, it's not that the elder brother doesn't believe you, but I just want to verify it. But don't blame me for blaming you. Since you already learned about the third brother's mobilization of troops a month ago, why didn't you notify me in advance? You know, if I had received the news earlier, I would make a quick decision to rush my troops south and then suppress the rebellion.

I will capture my third brother's territory and power in one go. Even if the emperor wakes up later, I can only praise me for my contribution to suppressing the rebellion. By then, I will become the most powerful person. Even if I will inevitably be taken back from the border military power in the end, mine has grown significantly. What a great opportunity. Why don't you tell me? How can you believe that you treat me sincerely?" Speaking of this, Li Qing's face was already a little blue.

"What did my brother say? I'm just wronging me." Li Ming suddenly shouted, and was about to think about how to evade him, suddenly he caught a glimpse of the masked man standing behind Liu Zhang from the corner of his eyes. A light suddenly passed through his mind, making his voice change, and pointed at the man and said, "Didn't he have already passed the news to you? Didn't I let him go on purpose? Do you think he could see through Biquan Island? Hu Feng, you have been on the island for so long, do you think it's so easy to escape alone?"

The masked man behind Liu Zhang was so scared that he ran forward subconsciously, and knelt in front of Li Ming with a thump, his forehead tightly pressed against the ground and did not dare to look up.

Li Ming sighed softly and said, "Get up, you are my elder brother's person, and I can't punish you. Besides, if I acted like I was against you, you would have been no longer alive. On the night you escaped from the island, I followed you and climbed the cliff of the West Mountain. Would you not notice it at all?" Speaking of this, Li Ming turned his head and said to Li Ming, "Brother, I actually have no way to do this. There are so many people on the island, and if you are not careful, everyone will complain. Hu Feng's actions are a death sentence everywhere, so I can't let him go to report the news openly, so I can only take this method. Besides, the news he heard was deliberately revealed to him. Otherwise, with him, the leader of the guard, how could he hear such a confidential matter? Hu Feng, do you understand?"

Hu Feng, who was kneeling on the ground, raised his head, and the face towel on his face had already been taken off by him. At this moment, he was sweating heavily and replied pale: "Thank you for not killing the island master. Since the island master knew where Hu Feng escaped that night, it means that the island master did intend to let go of the villain. The villain thanked you for your magnanimity. In addition, please show your compassion and spare my brothers." After saying that, he kowtowed heavily on the ground. In a blink of an eye, the floor tiles were covered with blood.

Li Ming sighed and said, "According to the rules, if you abscond, your senior brothers will be beheaded, but for the sake of my elder brother, I can't make things difficult for them. Don't worry, they have been sent back to Mangshan by me, and I can do the best I can do at this time."

Hu Feng was overjoyed and said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, the island owner, for being magnanimous. If there is a next life, I, Hu Feng, will repay you as a cow or a horse, but in this life, Hu Feng has already handed over his life to the prince."

At this time, Li Qing hurriedly stood up, pulled Hu Feng up on the ground, patted his shoulder with his hand, and praised: "Good brother, I have taken your wishes. You go down and bandage the wound first. My brother and I have something to say."

After Hu Feng left, Li Qing walked up to Li Ming, looked at Li Ming and said, "Brother, brother, you have let your hard work betrayed you. I didn't say anything. In the future, I, Li Qing, will make me thunder strike! Brother, don't blame my elder brother, it's really bad situation now."

"Why?" Li Ming asked very strangely: "From the news I received, except for the reclaimed military power of your border, there is no loss." Li Ming's surprise this time was not a pretender. Judging from the news from King Kang, the strength of these princes was indeed not greatly affected.

"How can you know?" Li Qing smiled bitterly and said to Liu Zhang: "Master, let's talk. I feel upset when I mention this."

Liu Zhang, who had not spoken for a long time, then looked at Li Ming and said, "Sir, I don't know that the situation in front of him is quite unfavorable to Li Qing. In fact, it is not only for Li Qing, but also for Li Jiao. In fact, the key to this matter is the imperial physician Wang Zheng. No one expected that Wang Zheng's medical skills would be so brilliant. The emperor's illness for many years would be cured by him, which would disrupt our plan. Looking back at all, it is not difficult to find how clever our emperor is. He easily drove Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong away, easily knocked the charges to the two princes, and easily welcomed the gratitude and trust of the civil and military ministers of the court. Alas, I underestimated him too much, it was really retribution. You don't know, although it seems to be

The emperor did not punish the princes too much, but in fact it was not the case. Now, Li Jiao, who was trying to raise an army a month ago, has been under house arrest, and his fief was handed over to the new marshal of Mengyin border by the emperor. The former Iron Armored Army Commander Ke Ba came to manage. This person is the emperor's absolute confidant. Although he was nominally under the jurisdiction of the Nine Gate, in fact, Ke Ba has been waiting for the emperor's transfer directly. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to regain military power, the emperor finally promoted him to six levels in a row, and directly gave him from a third-rank General Yunhui to a first-rank marshal. This time, he accepted Li Jiao's three states. Although the emperor has not announced the abolition of Li Jiao's fief, his strength has now been lost."

"With Li Jiao's lessons, we have to consider our own affairs. If the emperor points the finger at us after solving Li Jiao, there will be no way out. Therefore, we must be prepared. As far as I know, the emperor has decided to make King Kang the candidate for the crown prince, and it is estimated that it will be announced to all officials after the New Year. At that time, our initiative will be gone at all, so we must make the necessary response methods before this! This is the main purpose of our adventure to come to you." The elderly Liu Zhang showed a rare momentum, and his bold and decisive expression showed no limit on his face.
Chapter completed!