Finally expelled the Mongols from the country, this battle was fought for more than half a month, and many unexpected things happened, such as the Gyeonggi Guards really received Xie Wenliang's secret letter, and they did not stop Wei Mingxu's dispatch in the battle many times, and almost missed a major event.

For example, Mongolia was defeated again and again, and the princes of various alliances falsely accused Ulan of false news and demanded that Ulan be punished, but fortunately, Lin Dan Khan favored Ulan very much, and finally suppressed the riots.

After this battle, Mongolia lost more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, which was also a great damage to the vast and sparsely populated Mongolia.

And Wei Mingxu also secretly punished the Gyeonggi Protector Barracks, and rearranged the army establishment, severely punishing the generals who kept giving orders, and most of the soldiers in the underground were alerted and made a pardon, which can be regarded as buying people's hearts.

By the time the army planned to return to Korea, the morale of the army had been basically unified.

Wei Mingxu never thought that at this time, he received a secret letter from Wang Jingsheng, saying that he had lost contact with Lin Zhixuan in the palace.

In the past, when Lin Zhixuan was in Sister Xin's palace, all the news exchanges were the words of Brother Yu and Sister Xin'er, but now, I only heard that on that day, Wei Yanxian was furious and ordered someone to move Lin Zhixuan out of Yikun Palace and send her to Yongshou Palace, that is, Xie Jinnian's palace under house arrest. After that, there was no news.

Wei Mingxu, who was far away at the border, received this letter, but his heart suddenly lifted. A military order was issued, and there was no delay, and the division returned to the DPRK immediately.

Although because there is a war outside and a national funeral inside, those things in the Jingwang Mansion are tried their best to suppress and no one is allowed to talk about them, but those who know know it are all speculative, but no one dares to talk about it on the surface.

Fortunately, Lin Penghai and Mrs. Wang both got the letter from Wang Peizhen, but Wang Peizhen was also afraid that the two elders would worry, so they only said that Lin Zhixuan and the two children had left the palace safely, and they went out with Wei Mingxu's military camp, which was very safe. The second elder was slightly relieved.

But Princess Shuhui heard something different from Huang Zhen.

After all, Huang Zhen is now in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, and he doesn't know the things next to him, but he knows which palace has more and which palace has less.

The couple also took it as gossip, and lay in bed in the middle of the night to count the major events that had happened in the capital these days: "In the past few months, it has really been strange things one after another. Li Qi of the Ministry of War, a dignified scholar, actually personally escorted grain and grass to Mongolia. It was still secretly escorted, and it was attacked by the Mongolian army halfway, didn't Mongolia retreat, how did he go around the back of the army to sneak attack the grain and grass, and the people next to him did not die, but he died.

In the imperial city, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the Liao family was robbed by bandits on the night of the Empress Dowager's May 7, Liao Qing and his two sons died, let the criminal department investigate, the gang of bandits were afraid of being found, and killed Li Miaosheng, the secretary of the criminal department, and then those bandits went up the mountain to wander, and it is still an unsolved case.

The old lady, wife, and grandmother of the Li family were all overly sad, and within a few days, they died of illness one after another. The three masters of the Li family, husband and wife, went out to do business, and they have not returned so far, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead. ”

Shuhui listened to Huang Zhen tell her one by one, but shook her head with a sneer: "Where is this accident, obviously it was destroyed by someone, I tell you the truth, when I entered the palace that day to worship the Empress Dowager, the old lady of the Li family suddenly fainted, and then stayed in the palace to recuperate, and no one ever saw them out of the palace gate." I'm afraid that one night, they will be all caught by people, and they will make up so much gossip. ”

Huang Zhen couldn't figure it out, and only said with some worry: "The fourteen princes have just left the capital, and the little emperor has been tough like this, first destroying the Lin family, and then destroying the Liao family and the Li family, seizing the power of Prince Zhuang, directly pro-government, and the position of the secretary of the military department, after hearing that Li Qi died, he didn't ask the courtiers what they meant, and directly issued an order and handed it over to Wuyinghou Xie Wenliang."

A few days ago, I heard that the emperor had a problem with Wang Jingsheng, the minister of the guard, saying that as a minister of the interior, he left his post without permission, and during the war, he had left the capital privately and went to the military camp in the northwest to have private contacts with the fourteenth prince. It was only Prince Yi and Prince Zhuang who stood up to testify and tried their best to exonerate the king, and the people of the fourteen princes in the court also supported it, so they broke up unhappily and postponed the discussion for the time being. ”

Shuhui said with a calm face: "None of this is our business, and no matter what, Uncle Fourteen is about to return to Beijing, and we can't close the affairs of the court." I'm just a little worried that you told me last time, on the night of the Empress Dowager's death, the little aunt really entered the palace alone?"

Huang Zhen said: "I heard from a few little palace maids from Cining Palace, eight or nine are not far from ten, and I also saw the corpses of several guards in Jingwangfu, they only dragged the little eunuch of the Internal Affairs Mansion to the mass grave and lost it, but I caught a glimpse from afar, and one of them was Liu Yi, the head of Jingwangfu, he is also my old acquaintance, I won't look bad."

He will not come into the palace for no reason, if he follows the fourteenth prince, it should be Du Qin, Liu Yi has no reason, unless he follows the little aunt. I suspect that what those little palace maids of Cining Palace said is true nine times out of ten.

Moreover, in the past few days, I have heard from a few cronies of the little eunuchs below that the amount of food in Yikun Palace is nearly twice as much as that of the queen in the past, as if someone is eating with Niangniang in Yikun Palace. Although it is said that the master of the palace often rewards his own food, but there is no reason to reward it every day, and it is still in the mourning period of the Empress Dowager, and since the death of the Empress Dowager, it has suddenly doubled, I always feel that this matter is a little strange. ”

Princess Shuhui nodded and said, "If the little aunt is in the queen's palace, then it won't be a big deal." ”

Huang Zhen's face was a little unsightly, and he said: "But in the past few days, since the empress dowager's May seven, the amount of food in the queen's palace has returned to normal. However, in Concubine Min's Yongshou Palace, there are more and more meals, and they are becoming more and more picky. It is said that Concubine Min has a bad appetite. But the amount she used was not much more than her usual day. ”

When Shuhui heard Xie Jinnian's name, she chuckled in her heart, and had some bad reverie: "If the little aunt enters the Yongshou Palace, I'm afraid that life will not be so easy." ”

Huang Zhen also nodded and said: "Before the Empress Dowager was five or seventh, the emperor stayed in Yikun Palace more, almost every day, even if he didn't stay overnight, he would go to eat at noon, and he would run to Yikun Palace at every turn if he had nothing to do." Now I go to Yongshou Palace more diligently. ”

Shuhui frowned, and said: "You go and inquire carefully and then come and tell me, just be careful, don't startle the snake, in case it goes wrong, it's just that we think too much, and it won't be cost-effective to get into trouble again." ”