Chapter Eighty-Three: The Imperial Struggle
They didn't stay on the rockery for long, and Akiba Bai always remembered the situation on the rat's side, so after Baili Chu finished his snacks, the two of them set off immediately.
When he arrived near Yecheng, Qiu Yebai found that sure enough, the battle had already ended, and the soldiers of the East and West Battalions had already set up camp to rest, and the rat was a little injured on his hand, and he was bandaging it haphazardly, and suddenly saw her coming, and his eyes flashed with surprise.
"Vice-seater, why are you here?"
Akiba raised his eyebrows strangely: "What, I can't come?" ”
The rat said inexplicably: "Didn't you say that the matter inside the city is over, so you ordered us to camp outside the city?" ”
When Qiu Yebai heard this, she glanced at Baili Chu behind her, but when she saw him looking at her and curling the corners of her lips slightly, she immediately understood in her heart, it seemed that it was arranged by His Highness in private.
She didn't ask any more questions, but simply followed the rat into the tent and asked, "Well, I'll see how the situation is going here." ”
The best way to know that the best way to know that there is no embellishment is to ask the other person to tell it by themselves in a short question or a quote.
The rat nodded, looking a little strange: "You ordered us to come before, saying that there may be someone blocking the road, let us be careful, and solve it quickly, so my subordinates used the token to lead people and ran out, indeed as you expected, someone blocked it, and it was a soldier disguised as a mountain bandit, they were well-trained, at the beginning, the soldiers of the East and West Battalion were almost immediately rushed by the other party to break up, but ......." ”
"But what?" After Akiba Bai sat down, he looked at the rat.
The rat's expression became more and more weird: "However, there are many people in the East and West camps, so although there was chaos for a while, the other party was still surrounded under the command of General Huang, and there was a scuffle, and then ......." ”
He thought for a moment, as if recalling the situation, trying to find a suitable explanation, but finally said briefly: "And then those 'bandits' suddenly died." ”
Autumn leaves were stunned: "All of a sudden? ”
This expression is really strange, what does it mean to suddenly die?
The rat nodded, and there was no falsification on his expression: "The subordinates don't quite understand, a white smoke miasma suddenly floated from the mountain, and everyone couldn't see anything at once, and then when the smoke dissipated, they found that those 'bandits' were all dead, all of them were poisoned, but we smelled the smoke together but nothing happened." ”
The Yecheng garrison was completely annihilated.
Qiu Yebai was silent for a while, her eyes swept over Bai Lichu, who was standing on the side with a normal expression, sighed lightly in her heart, and then nodded: "Well, maybe it's because they have already taken some kind of poison before, and some people raise the dead to be like this." ”
The rat didn't have a better explanation, so he also nodded: "General Huang of the East Daying also said the same." ”
Then he suddenly remembered the situation in the city, and hurriedly asked: "Yes, deputy seat, what is going on with the people in our city, you asked Miss Ning Dong to come over and give orders, Miss Ning Dong was in a hurry to rush back, and it was unclear." ”
Qiu Yebai instantly understood, this was the disguise of the person who controlled the crane prison, she looked at Bai Li Chu, who still looked faint and wiped the bench with a handkerchief, and sighed lightly in her heart, the order that can make a treacherous old fritter like a rat on the street believe it, at this time, only Bai Li Chu can do it, but this also reminds her that maybe she should redesign a set of ways to pass orders, otherwise it will not be good if she is used in the future.
She simply said a few words to the rat about the battle of the Yecheng Mei family's semicolon, and didn't say anything else, the rat only heard that the enemy was dead, and our side won a big victory, so naturally she was only happy, and she was a little choked up after being happy for a while, and then snorted a few mouthfuls on the ground hatefully: "Xiaolou and Xiaofu's big feud has to be embraced!" ”
He was happy and didn't think much about it, so he just said that he wanted to prepare a celebration wine.
Qiu Yebai saw him leaving, so he looked at Baili Chu: "Your Highness, did you let you do it?" ”
Bai Lichu nodded, slowly wiped the stool and backrest three or four times, and then sat down, lazily playing with her soft hair: "Before the palace came to Mei's house, I let people go to the outer city first, and the less people know about the things in the city, the better." ”
Akiba Bai's expression was a little complicated: "Hmm." ”
The fewer people who enter the city, the fewer people will know the secrets of the Yecheng garrison.
But from this day on, this secret may only be swallowed by everyone, and this army can only mysteriously 'disappear' from the world.
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Seven days later
His Majesty the Emperor's body was sick again, infected with wind and cold, and was sick in bed, so when the case of arms smuggling was first played in the court, in addition to His Royal Highness the Regent listening to the music, even the Queen Mother Lafayette was also alarmed, and personally entered the court and listened to the music.
As a result, a group of courtiers launched a fierce debate in front of the two masters of Mingguang Hall and Yongning Palace who controlled the power of life and death.
First of all, the commander of the ceremonial superintendent, Qiu Yebai, was ordered by the emperor to investigate the illegal casting of arms, and after returning from the shoddy case, he presented a number of account books, and participated in a copy of the eighth prince's Baili Lingfeng, identifying him as the main messenger behind the private casting of weapons behind his back and embezzling silver.
Many people in the court who originally seemed to be the five princes and a party stood up, arguing with reason, saying that those account books were all searched in the Mei family's mansion, and the seals and seals on them were all from the Mei family, and the Mei family was the mastermind behind this matter.
Although this sounds a little ridiculous, after all, who doesn't know the relationship between the Mei family and the Du family, how much Lafayette takes care of the Mei family, how can he lift a stone to shoot himself in the foot?
But at this juncture, there are ministers who coldly participate in the Mei family's book, saying that the Mei family monopolizes the world's assets, and there must be a lot of money earned by colluding with corrupt officials in the DPRK and China, and they have bribed the people of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, and it is not impossible to do shoddy!
The Queen Mother Lafayette sneered behind the curtain, but His Royal Highness the Regent sat in the temple but looked like he was there, and the gods were there, so that people couldn't see whose side this Highness was on.
At this time, some people continued to second, and even said that in this world, everyone only knows that the Mei family is rich enough to be an enemy country, but they don't know that the royal family is sitting on the world, and the Mei family controls the economic lifeline of the enemy country, and must have undue ambitions, maybe it is not just colluding with corrupt officials, corrupting the law, and shoddy, and it may even be suspected of rebellion.
As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the government and the opposition, but the next moment, the Queen Mother Lafayette was so angry that she couldn't help but smash the tea cup in her hand to the ground with a 'clang', and said sharply: "Presumptuous!" ”
The Queen Mother Lafayette had already listened to politics in the court, and her thunderous anger made all the ministers tremble instantly.
But soon, there was a person who was not afraid of death and came out directly to 'second', and actually comforted the Queen Mother Lafayette not to be angry, such a white-eyed wolf as the Mei family naturally lived up to Lafayette's painstaking cultivation, and it was not worth being angry at such a 'despicable villain' as the Mei family.
There are one and two, and one after another, courtiers came out to 'comfort' Lafayette, angrily denouncing the Mei family as white-eyed wolves, daring to rebel, and they must be imprisoned for a thorough investigation.
There are even people who have built a copy of the Mei family, in which the Wanguan family wealth is used to subsidize the treasury, which must be able to fill the treasury for more than three years, and the border army does not have to worry about the lack of grain and grass to fight against the enemy, and the Ministry of Industry does not have to worry about repairing the river embankment without silver, and the household department does not have to worry about the lack of silver for seedlings and roads every year.
There were many ministers seconded the proposal, and even the ministers of the originally neutral faction were a little hot when they heard the white silver, but they were still a little distracted and did not dare to come out to second, but when the ministers of the Du family scolded the absurdity and came to seek their support with their eyes, they all silently 'turned their ears to the outside of the window'.
The Queen Mother Lafayette was so angry that she trembled, and smashed several teacups, scolding: "Ridiculous, ridiculous, untrustworthy!" ”
She was so angry that she couldn't even help but look at Bailichu on the dragon chair, but she didn't want to, it was okay not to look at it, she looked at it, she almost vomited blood in anger, it turned out that she was watching the Taiji Hall make a noise, and His Royal Highness Bailichu was leaning on the dragon chair gracefully, and he almost put his 'embroidered shoes' on the dragon case, and was looking down intently while looking at a gorgeous picture album, while asking the little eunuch who was waiting to help him maniure.
The Queen Mother Lafayette was originally reading some newspapers in the future, but when she looked at the album, she almost fainted.
Baili Chu has a gorgeous Western Spring Palace 18 style, which contains all kinds of 'famous pictures' lifelike, Western characters are more important than Chinese characters depicted in form rather than gods, so the above character is even more delicate, making people look hot and blush, but Baili Chu is quite certified to read the folds, which makes the Queen Mother Lafayette angrily scolded in her heart "What a shameless little slut, royal scum" countless times.
On the side, Mama Dong helped the Queen Mother pinch the acupoints of her wrists, soothing the angry blood of the Queen Mother, and silently comforting the Queen Mother's temper.
How could the Queen Mother Lafayette not know that although she was incompatible with Baili Chu, Bai Li Chu was the one who had a weight to speak here, so she had to look at Bai Li Chu patiently: "Chu Er, what kind of system do you think this quarrel has become?" ”
After a while, he raised his eyes slightly from the album, looked at Lafayette, and said casually: "Oh, what's the noise?" ”
Feelings, this is a child who has been studying his obscene paintings, and he didn't listen to it at all!
The Queen Mother only felt an evil fire rushing to her head, and her lips trembled and she wanted to reach out to scratch Hua Bailichu's beautiful and inhuman face.
It was Mama Dong who pinched the queen mother's wrist vigorously, and she forcibly endured it.
At this time at the beginning of the hundred miles, Fang Cai slowly looked at Qiu Yebai, who had been silent for a long time in the field: "Admiral Qiu, what do you think?" ”