Choosing the standby emperor is really something that causes headache, earlier on it was mentioned that the royal family has very little descendants, and Ji Wu Jiu was the only son of his father. Last time, when the emperors gave birth to a few more sons, they will also fight till the last one survives. Ji Wu Jiu’s father previously also killed of his brother in order to obtain the throne.
Therefore Ji Wu Jiu had to go through his ancestry book, and found a distant relative. This person was the Ming Emperor’s 5th generation descendant, and if calculated properly this person is considered to be the uncle rank of Ji Wu Jiu. After few generations of dispute, this person is not in a good state. He is also the sole descendant, over 40 years old and still unmarried, seemingly his lineage might end. Now he is a scissors sharpener, at the end of his road.
Ji Wu Jiu was considering again and again, and thought that if he accidently allowed a scissors sharpener to accidently become an emperor, those ministers would most probably dig up his bones to scold. Therefore, with a stroke of his brush, he chose Princess Li Yang’s son, Tan Ji as the standby emperor candidate. If anything were to happen to Ji Wu Jiu, Tan Ji will have to change his surname to Ji, and to be adopted by Ji Wu Jiu as his son. Princess Li Yang is his aunt, so this Tan Ji is his direct cousin brother, so his decision was reasonable. Furthermore to allow Tan Ji to take over the throne, there are advantages, this person, his brains are very weak, to the point of not being able to be groomed, his father was mentally ill, and has long since been gone, and only Princess Li Yang is guarding him, relying on the wages for the royal family to survive. Therefore he does not have any support from the court, if he were really to be the emperor one day, he will also only be a puppet, and his sole purpose is to maintain the royal lineage. With Ye Family and Fang Xiu Qing taking care of the court, Da Qi’s fate should be fine.
That is to say, no matter how much Ji Wu Jiu hates Ye Family, but during the important times, he also can only rely on Ye Family only.
But above, was Ji Wu Jiu’s over worrying. He would not die so easily, after taking care of those barbarians, curing Ye Zhen Zhen’s sickness, he will get a few sons from her, and then all the problems will be resolved.
Why did his thoughts went to Ye Zhen Zhen giving birth to his sons, wasn’t he supposed to be angry at her.
The second day after Ji Wu Jiu left the capital, only did the edict reach the inner court. Ye Xiu Ming and Fang Xiu Qing was speechless, but since the matters is set, they really can’t do anything much, afraid of getting disliked by Ji Wu Jiu. When Ye Xiu Ming returned home, he scolded that little rascal, and went into his store that keeps all his treasures, and took out an armour.
The armour is full white, smooth, shining and soft. This thing, the name is called “Silk Shirt”, a very common name, but has a very special ability; Impenetrable. Although the name is called silk shirt, but it is not made from silk, but from a type of spider web that can only be found in Yun Nan forest. This type of spider is very rare, its body is very big, and the web they produce is very strong, one strand of it can trap a goat. Someone mysterious there has collected this web for years, and finally made this one armour, and somehow it ended in the hands of Ye Xiu Ming.
Now, Ye Xiu Ming has no choice but to take it out and pass it to Ji Wu Jiu. No matter what, this little rascal’s life is the most important, more precious than any treasures in the world.
That night, Ye Xiu Ming sent someone with the armour to chase after Ji Wu Jiu, to make sure Ji Wu Jiu receives the armour as soon as possible.
Not to mention that the people that Ji Wu Jiu brought along are all elites amongst the elites, and their horses are the best, after three days they have caught up with the army group that has earlier on departed. Seeing Tan Feng Xiang, he went straight to the point and asked him if there were any person that entered the army group with a tiger seal. About this matter Tan Feng Xiang was not really sure. This tiger seal, because it involves the emperor, so the people that saw it will not really mention about it, and will not leak any news out. But seeing that Ji Wu Jiu was looking very anxious to the point of wanting to swallow people up, he immediately got people to ask around layer by layer.
Ji Wu Jiu also personally requested Lu Li to meet him, but in the end Lu Li was also clueless. He was still worried, but also felt calmer; Zhen Zhen did not come to find Lu Li.
After 4 hours, a soldier was brought forward to be questioned, he said that there was really someone that was carrying the tiger seal that entered the army group.
JI Wu Jiu immediately brightened up “Where is this person now?”
The soldier did not really know who the person was infront of him now, but seeing Captain Tan’s attitude towards him was respectful, so he answered respectfully as well “General Zhen stayed at the army camp for two days, taking some explosives and bullets, and have left”
“General Zhen?”
“Yes, he says his surname is Zhen, a 5th rank general personally appointed by the emperor, his name was Zhen Wei Meng” (it means, (Zhen) Really, (Wei Meng) Strong.. something like that..lol)
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