Gong sent Peng Yunzhang away, and Han Xiufeng came to the gate of East Chang'an by the faint moonlight.

It is said that in the former Ming Dynasty, the East Chang'an Gate and the West Chang'an Gate were forbidden places, and ordinary people must not approach, let alone pass, but the solemn imperial city of this dynasty has a little more fireworks. Not only is it open to the children of the Eight Banners who live in the inner city during the day, but it also turns a blind eye to the small traders who come to do business in various yamen, and at night when a pregnant woman is about to give birth, he must hurry to ask a midwife or other urgent matter, and the guards guarding the gate will also be accommodating.

Han Xiufeng was not a flat-headed person, he showed his waist card, and the guards guarding the door not only let him go, for fear that he, a "little military plane", would stumble and stumble on the night road, but also gave him a ride with a lantern.

Passing through the royal road in front of **, then passing through the West Chang'an Gate, returning to the Dengwen Drum Hall, saying hello to Xiao Shandong and the groom who had been waiting for this time, he climbed into the carriage and returned to the hall with a heavy heart.

Why did Peng Yunzhang mention the Dengwen Drum Hall, why did he say that the Dengwen Drum Hall and Luan Yiwei should be the closest yamen to the imperial city, Han Xiufeng guessed a few points. But why did he mention the political secretary to Senate Qingxian, why did he ask him to help visit Qingxian's house, he couldn't come up with a reason for thinking about the hall from the Dengwen Drum Hall.

Seeing that Huang Zhongyin, Ji Yunfei and other fellow villagers were not only waiting for him to open the banquet as they did last night, but also congratulated him on his promotion to the "Little Military Aircraft" as soon as they saw him, Han Xiufeng simply didn't want to think about it, and hurriedly thanked him.

What made him even more ridiculous was that the seating of the banquet had changed dramatically, originally Huang Zhongyin sat on the head, then Ji Yunfei and Ao Tongchen, and then him, but tonight Huang Zhongyin insisted on him sitting at the head, as if he, the senator of the Zhengwupin Tongzheng Division, who was born as a donor, as the head of the officials in Beijing!

He doesn't sit and no one sits, and if he gives in and resigns, he doesn't know when he will be able to start the table. Han Xiufeng was so enthusiastic that he could only sit on the top.

What moved him even more was that not only the villagers in the house had already asked the shopkeeper Wen to help rent it, but even the grooms, the long-term entourage, and even the fellow villagers helped to think of it...... There is no way to repay, you can only toast, this drink can't be stopped, and when you are full of food and drink, you get up to see off Huang Zhongyin and others, and your head is already dizzy, and you can't even stand on your feet.

"Zhixing, don't send it, hurry back to the house to rest. Your new official has taken office, and there are still a lot of things to do tomorrow. ”

"Yes, there's something to give, we're not far from here."

"Zhixing, let's go first, and then go to the house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to congratulate the housewarming."

"Okay, okay, don't send it, you slow down."

"Fourth master, I'm going back too, don't worry, sister-in-law, I'll go to the city gate with Lao Yu at noon tomorrow." Wealth is also a hand.

"I'm tired."

"Fourth master, if you say this, you will see the outside, your business is my rich business......"

At night, the weather was cool, and the cool breeze blew, Han Xiufeng sobered up a lot, and subconsciously asked: "Fugui, I'll ask you about a person, I don't know if you recognize it?" ”

"Who?" Fugui hurriedly asked.

"My current colleague, the Secretary of General Affairs, Senator Qingxian."

"Fourth master, what did you ask him to do?"

"You recognize?"

Fugui scratched his neck and said embarrassedly: "Fourth master, what is my identity, what is the identity of others, where do I recognize him?" But I've heard of him a lot, and don't look at him as a senator like you, but as far as I know, not only is he not as good as you, I'm afraid he is not much better than me. ”

Han Xiufeng asked, "How do you say this?" ”

This is a long story, Fuguizheng didn't know where to start, Ji Yunfei, who had just walked a few steps, suddenly turned around and said: "Zhixing, you said this Qingxian, I know, he is the son of Qiying, a scholar of the Revolutionary University, and he has an elder brother named Qingxi, and now he is the Minister of Internal Affairs of the General Military Administration of Malan Town, but as the rich man said, the situation of their two brothers is not good, in my opinion, it is better for you and their brothers not to get too close." ”

Han Xiufeng was taken aback: "Qingxian is the son of Qiying Zhongtang, who has been the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Liangguang, and the former official to the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion?" ”

"This can still be fake!"

Ji Yunfei sighed: "Qizhongtang is high in the temple of Beijing, and has served as the squire of the military department, the court of the court, the Ministry of rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the commander of the Eight Banners, and the commander of the infantry army. He served as the commander of Rehe, the general of Shengjing, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, the governor of Liangjiang and Guangzhou, and the highest official to the scholar of Wenyuange. His father Lu Kang is a scholar of the East Pavilion of the Jiaqing Dynasty, and the father and son have been inherited for two generations, and they have entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, creating a precedent for my Qing Dynasty clan, and the glory is extreme! ”

"And now?"

Ji Yunfei felt that it was inappropriate to say these things outside, so he simply pulled Han Xiufeng into the hall, returned to the West Flower Hall and sat down with a wry smile: "Now I have lost power." ”

Han Xiufeng saw that Ji Yunfei was only halfway abandoned, and when Su Jueming finished making tea and walked out of the flower hall, he asked eagerly: "Because of what lost power?" ”

"What else can it be, it's not because of those trade treaties signed with Xiyi!" Ji Yunfei sighed lightly and patiently explained: "Losing power and humiliating the country, it is said that until his death, he said that he was ashamed of his ancestors and ancestors. The compensation for the land cession was also a great shame for the emperor. But the emperor is a filial son, and he doesn't think that these things of losing power and humiliating the country have anything to do with the first emperor, so he is angry with Qiying, and has pleaded for it more than once, and even has some meaningless meanings about the crime he wants to add. Seeing Han Xiufeng thoughtful, Ji Yunfei hurriedly said: "But the emperor didn't wronged him, after all, those trade and peace treaties that lost power and humiliated the country were all signed by him, Qishan and Xiyi." ”

"Since the emperor doesn't want to see Qiying so much, why does the emperor still reuse Qingxi and Qingxian?"

"For others, being able to be the Minister of the Interior is an important use, but for Kyung-seok, it's just two things." Ji Yunfei picked up the teacup, blew the tea leaves that had not yet been brewed on it, and said meaningfully: "Whether this errand is going well or not, whether this day is comfortable or not, the two brothers know their own warmth and coldness." ”

Han Xiufeng realized that the emperor wanted to beat Qi Ying, but also didn't want the Manchu civil and military families, especially the clan, to think that he was mean and unkind, and deliberately embarrassed the old ministers, so he couldn't help asking: "What position does Qi Ying occupy now?" ”

"From a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, who was a very popular minister, he was demoted to a member of the Ministry of Works, and this member of the Ministry of Industry was ordered by the emperor to donate." Ji Yunfei thought for a while, and then said: "On the fourteenth day of the first month of the thirtieth year of Daoguang, not long after the first emperor died in the Shende Hall of the Old Summer Palace, Qiying wrote to the newly enthroned emperor "The way to seek treatment does not precede the three major ends of employing people and administrative finance", and everyone with a discerning eye knows that Qiying wants to show his loyalty to the emperor.

As a result, because there are words such as 'the way of employing people, trying to work, people have rigidity and softness, only then can they have strengths and weaknesses, and use their talents against their talents, although the gentleman is afraid of making mistakes, use it properly, and even if the villain can help things', the emperor was reprimanded on the grounds of 'it is a gentleman and a villain, and the argument is too biased'. ”

"And then?" Han Xiufeng asked.

"In the thirtieth year of Daoguang, that is, at the turn of the summer and autumn of the year when the emperor ascended the throne, the infantry army commanded the yamen because a Catholic believer named Ding Guangming held a gift and planned to send it to Qiying's house. When the emperor found out, he was furious and ordered the Criminal Department to review and handle it. The trial of this case found that the person surnamed Ding had nothing to do with Qiying, but he heard from a Xiyi missionary that Qiying had made meritorious contributions in handling Yiying affairs in Guangdong, so he ran into the city to submit a letter to Qiying, wanting to ask Qiying to help him say hello to the local officials in his hometown in Shandong, so that he could return to his hometown to build a church. ”

Ji Yunfei paused, and then said: "He went to the Qiying Mansion to deliver the name post four times, but he was blocked by Menzi until he was captured by the patrol camp. But the emperor still did not give up, and ordered Xu Guangjin, then governor of Liangguang, and Ye Mingchen, then governor of Guangdong, to thoroughly investigate whether there was a Xiyi missionary surnamed Ding. ”

Thinking that an elder of the Three Dynasties was forced to be like this, Han Xiufeng finally understood what it meant to be a companion like a tiger, and after thinking about it, he asked, "What about these two years?" ”

"The situation in the past two years has not been much better, 'breaking the drum and everyone hammering, and the wall falling down and pushing by everyone' is not false at all, as far as I know, Xu Guangjin and Ye Mingchen, who are obviously not allowed to enter Guangzhou City, Xu Guangjin and Ye Mingchen, who are obviously not allowed to enter Guangzhou City, whenever Xiyi provokes because they can't enter Guangzhou City, they fall into the well and take Qiying to talk about things, saying that it was Qiying's private permission to promise Xiyi to enter Guangzhou City."

Han Xiufeng had read the peace treaty signed by the imperial court of Daoguang in 234 with Britain, France, the United States and other countries, which clearly stated that Guangzhou was a treaty port, and foreign merchants could not only enter the city to do business, but also the consuls of Britain, France and the United States could enter the city to set up consulates as in Shanghai.

I thought that the court had agreed, and it was clearly written in black and white, which was really not a private promise! What's more, when Qiying left office, in order to prevent foreigners from entering the city, he also used a delaying tactic, proposed to the foreigners to delay the entry into the city, and deceived the foreigners to give Guangdong officials two years to prepare.

Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, the battle of the foreigners has been won, and the peace treaty has been signed with the imperial court, but they still can't enter the city of Guangzhou, and they have been deceived by Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen and others again and again, and no one can stand it.

Ji Yunfei didn't know what Han Xiufeng was thinking, and couldn't help asking, "Zhixing, why did you ask about Qiying for no reason?" ”

Han Xiufeng relieved himself and hurriedly said: "I didn't ask Qiying, I asked Qingxian, isn't he on an errand in the Yamen of the General Administration Department like me, and he is a senator like me." Thinking that it will be indispensable to deal with him in the future, I want to inquire about what he is like. ”

"I see, it scared me." Ji Yunfei didn't want to delay Han Xiufeng's rest, so he got up and said with a smile: "I'll go back first, as for Qingxian, it doesn't matter what kind of person he is, the important thing is that his father is not treated by the emperor." Trust me, don't get too close to him. What's more, unlike others, you don't need to burn this cold stove. ”

"Yes, I know it."

Sending Ji Yunfei away, returning to the room and recalling what Peng Yunzhang said at night, Han Xiufeng's mood couldn't be calmed down for a long time.

Peng Yunzhang half-jokingly "opened the palace and built the yamen", saying that the Dengwen Drum Hall and the Luan Yiwei should be the closest yamen to the imperial city, which reminded him that he must not really treat the Dengwen Drum Hall as a government office according to the emperor's wishes, because that area is full of the six departments, Zongren Mansion, Luan Yiwei and other big yamen, if you really treat it as a government office, and what is the matter directly into the palace to report to the ministers of military aircraft, then you, the general political secretary of the five grades, will not be on an equal footing with the six Shangshu?

As for Ti Qingxian, he even asked him to help him visit Qingxian's house, not really planning to let him go to meet Qiying, but reminding him that there would be no good end to handling the affairs of the country! If you are cautious, you just need to find out about Yiyi's feelings, but if you are entrusted with the important task by the emperor to negotiate with Xiyi, then there is a good chance that you will be ruined like Qiying!