Everyone has a devil in their hearts. The chain that locks this devil is called morality and ethics, and the things that can cut the chain are anger, hatred, injustice, etc.

Geng Zhongqiu's martial arts skills are already higher than Xiao Yajian, and it is easy to kill him. But in the end he did not kill him, but broke his tendons, broke his qi sea in his dantian, and castrated his lower body. Oh, by the way, Jiang Xia also cut his throat with him.

What does it mean to live without dying? Xiao Yajian can't do even if he wants to commit suicide.

When Jiang Xia and Geng Zhongqiu left, Jiang Xia specially gave the Tianzhuo a lot of money. He only had one request: "Try to make Xiao Ya live a long life."

Killing people is just a lie, but in the end Geng Zhongqiu chose to let Xiao Yajian live in pain. Such behavior is even more uncomfortable than killing a person a hundred times.

When leaving the Heavenly Prison, Xiao Yajian's whining voice contained endless pain and fear. Geng Zhongqiu breathed a long sigh of relief, and felt that he seemed to have become much more relaxed.

I let go of the devil in my heart, and I don’t have any attachments. This feeling may be really good.

After leaving the prison, Geng Zhongqiu suddenly knelt in front of Jiang Xia. Before Jiang Xia could respond, Geng Zhongqiu had already kowtowed three times. Geng Zhongqiu said: "Master, I, Geng Zhongqiu, swear that I will be loyal to you in this life. Whether it is going to the Knife Mountain or going down the oil pan, as long as you tell me Geng Zhongqiu to frown, it will be useless to be a human being."

Jiang Xia reached out to help Geng Zhongqiu up, patted Geng Zhongqiu on the shoulder and said, "If you really treat each other as your own people, then you should do whatever you want for each other, no need to thank you, let alone go up the knife and go down the oil pan."

"The leader" Geng Zhongqiu shouted excitedly.

Jiang Xia patted Geng Zhongqiu on the shoulder again, then pointed to the carriage driven by Han Mufeng and said, "How is it? Are you going to have a meal at my Xiaoyao Villa or go back to Qianmen to gather with your brothers first?"

"I'll go back to Qianmen first, so I won't bother the leader."

"If you have any trouble, don't bother me. If you are interested, you can come to Xiaoyao Villa to find me at any time."

After saying that, Jiang Xia and Geng said goodbye, and then got on the carriage.

After returning to Xiaoyao Villa, Jiang Xia was originally going to pull Cui Niannu and Cui Rushuang to have a self-service barbecue together, but Zhong Bin came just as the things were ready.

Originally, Jiang Xia was about to call Zhong Bin to bake things together, but Zhong Bin shook his head and whispered to Jiang Xia: "He is gone, leaving the capital."

Jiang Xia nodded to show that he knew. The person Zhong Bin mentioned was Zhu Chenhao.

"Just let him go like this?" Zhong Bin was a little unwilling.

Jiang Xia patted Zhong Bin on the shoulder, got up and walked back to the room.

Zhong Bin followed Jiang Xia into the room together. In Sijiju’s study, Jiang Xia first opened a wooden box, which was full of treasure money.

Zhong Bin was slightly stunned. Jiang Xia pointed to the treasure money and said, "Half of it belongs to you, I'll take it away later."

Zhong Bin glanced at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It was given by Zhu Chenhao."

Zhong Bin nodded, frowned slightly and said, "That's it?"

He knew Jiang Xia very well and knew that such a little money would not allow Jiang Xia to forget it like this. Jiang Xia was not a person who lacked money.

Jiang Xia smiled slightly and said, "I promised him not to stab his affairs at my second child. You know that I am an honest and trustworthy person."

"Skip nonsense." Zhong Bin said lightly.

"It's not OK to rely on you like this. I'll let Miss Yin live with you all day long. Let me teach you."

"I'm leaving." Zhong Bin turned around and prepared to leave.

Jiang Xia quickly grabbed him, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhong Bin and said, "Send someone to send this letter to King Huai of Raozhou Prefecture, and tell him the whole story."

Zhong Bin looked at Jiang Xia for a while, then took out the letter and looked at it. The letter was a letter written by King Huai to Jiang Xia that Zhu Chenhao had forged by him. Jiang Xia specially brought it from Zhu Houzhao. He sent the letter to King Huai, and then told him the whole story. I am afraid that King Huai will never die with Zhu Chenhao in his life.

Zhong Bin silently put the letter in his arms and turned around to go out. When he walked to the door, Zhong Bin suddenly turned his head and asked Jiang Xia, "Will I really feel it's hard to get along with me?"

Jiang Xia was stunned for nearly five seconds, and suddenly he burst into laughter, as if he was about to overturn the roof.

Zhong Bin's face suddenly turned into pig's liver color, and the long sword in his hand was slightly unsheathed.

Jiang Xia was laughing around the ground with her belly in her arms. He said intermittently: "I didn't expect that Zhong Bin would be afraid that he would be difficult to get along with."

Zhong Bin looked at Jiang Xia with a look of murder, but Jiang Xia couldn't help laughing there. He shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I promise not to laugh at you for the rest of my life with this matter, I swear."

Zhong Bin took a deep breath, turned around and walked out of the study room

In the next nearly a month, Jiang Xia had a leisurely life. The Huangyu Department's yamen has been officially completed and put into use, and the basic personnel team has been established. Everyone has begun to perform their duties, and the Huangyu Department has officially started to operate.

Originally, after the establishment of the Emperor Entertainment Department, the first major drama, "Book of Liang". However, since the male protagonist of this drama, Mr. Zhu Houzhao, was a little busy on weekdays, the rehearsal progress could not keep up with it, and it was delayed again and again. It took a full month to not be able to rehearse perfectly.

In desperation, Jiang Xia had to hold a concert for Yun Yunyu, Xueyi and Lan Huixin first. Now the three of them have become one of the undisputed female stars in the capital.

Among the original four courtesans, Yun Yunyu and Lan Huixin were already outstanding. Shangguan Ziyue left the Jiaofangsi to serve Jiang Xia with peace of mind. However, Liu Yiren had not yet made his official debut.

What Jiang Xia was strange about was that Liu Yiren actually invited Liu Jin to plead for her. In the end, Jiang Xia handed over Zhu Yingtai, the heroine of "Book of Liang" to Liu Yiren.

Except for the slightly delayed work of the movie "Liang Zhu", everything else went smoothly. The newspaper "Da Ming Daily" published by the Imperial Entertainment Department was published three times a week. It has now become popular in the entire capital and is gradually developing towards the outer city of the capital.

The newspaper is divided into several sections by Jiang Xia, roughly including current affairs news, celebrity gossip and advertising.

In this era of lack of entertainment, newspapers, like new things, were loved by all the people as soon as they came out. They read the newspaper every day, then asked friends to come out to drink tea, and talk about the contents in the newspaper. This was basically one of the current phenomena in the Ming Dynasty.

It makes sense for Zhu Houzhao to delay the performance of "Brief Zhu" because he has been doing two major things recently and has basically done it.

The first thing is about Jiangxia's "Red Dragon Investigation". Zhu Houzhao discussed this matter with the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Rites for a long time before finally making it settled.

The royal family Dragon Sect is a yamen without a title, and its basic salary is relatively low. Even Jiangxia, the "head", had a monthly salary of only fifty taels of silver.

However, the royal dragon detective is directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, and the dragon leader Jiangxia has the convenience of free entry and exit of the palace. And if the evidence is conclusive, the royal dragon detective can arrest officials below the third rank and then report to the Ministry of Justice, Censorate, and Dali Temple Three Departments to convict.

With these two points, it has basically been confirmed that the Royal Dragon Scepter is an institution that is not inferior to the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, but its scale is not as large as the two.

After confirming the matter of the Royal Dragon Investigation, all the preparations will be simple. The planning office will be customized, exclusive clothing will be customized, and the Ministry of Rites will customize a unified nameplate. The Military War will create a unified standard weapon for the Royal Dragon Investigation as required.

With all this, Jiang Xia is equivalent to having the first independent force.

This second major event is the "Monday Meeting of All Nations" after the Winter Solstice.

In Jiang Xia's opinion, this was a completely boring, boring, and even a bit brainless act.

Simply put, this dynasty meeting in the Wanguo Dynasty was actually Zhu Houzhao. His treasury was very full recently, and the Ming Dynasty had no natural disasters and man-made disasters recently, so he decided to invite people from neighboring countries to visit his Ming Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it was to show off his strength in the Ming Dynasty and satisfy his vanity.

It is said that it is a meeting of the dynasty of the All Nations, but in fact it is just a dozen small neighboring countries. As the host, the Ming Dynasty not only had to provide people with travel expenses and food and accommodation, but also had to reward a large number of gold, silver and jewelry when they left to demonstrate the generosity and strength of the country of the Great Ming Dynasty.

And others only offer some local specialties at most.

Although Jiang Xia felt that this matter was a bit boring, Zhu Houzhao was very concerned about it and specially arranged for Liu Jin to take charge of the matter and told him to do it well.

The winter solstice is coming in a blink of an eye.

According to custom, Jiang Xia ate wontons made by Cui Niannu, Cui Rushuang and Shangguan Ziyue at home that morning, and then he went out to the Imperial Entertainment Department.

After hard work, Zhu Houzhao finally barely passed Jiangxia's rehearsal. Today was the first makeup rehearsal in the Huangyusi Grand Theater Room.

Everything went smoothly during the rehearsal, and Jiang Xia announced that she would start selling tickets to the outside world.

In the capital, Jiangxia's play is a golden signboard. This time-consuming "Liang Zhu" has been expected by the people of the capital for a long time, so the tickets for the show were announced, which caused crazy snatches from the entire capital.

On the morning when Liang Zhu officially started the performance, Jiang Xia got up early and went to the Emperor Entertainment Department to watch Liang Zhu's rehearsal again.

In this scene, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Yiren have many rival scenes. For some reason, Jiang Xia always felt that Zhu Houzhao's eyes looked at Liu Yiren a little strange.

At noon, it suddenly started to snow.

It started to snow just after the winter solstice, and this incident was basically an unimaginable thing in later Beijing.

Jiang Xia stood at the door of the Imperial Entertainment Office and reached out to follow the snowflakes. Suddenly he heard a sound of gongs and drums.

After listening to it, Jiang Xia heard that it turned out that it was the envoy of Annan Kingdom. It seemed that a big man had also come to the voice.

Princess Annan?

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