Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Conspiracy (I)

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"Wu Yingxiong has a secret letter from Wu Sangui in his hand? The letter said that Wu Sangui asked the court for the true amount of military salaries? Xiaozhuang blinked his shrewd eyes, and slowly chanted suspiciously, doubting this information. Kangxi next to him said excitedly: "Grandmother, no wonder Wu Yingxiong is in such a hurry to win over Aobai." Now the reason has come out, it turns out that he learned that Wu Sangui did not mention the number of military salaries in the first two recitals, so he wanted to use this opportunity to make more money to the imperial court, and by the way, cultivate his power in the court, and his heart can be punished! His heart can be punished! ”

"That's great, as long as the emperor sends someone to steal the letter, or transcribe it, won't he know the real amount of military salary that Wu Sangui demanded?" Su Malagu slapped Xiaozhuang's shoulders and suggested with a smile: "The amount written by Wu Sangui in the letter must be the minimum limit for the Yunnan garrison to ask for military salaries. Knowing oneself and knowing the other, as long as the emperor knows this bottom limit, he can allocate the salary to Yungui according to this bottom limit, and he can temporarily stabilize Wu Sangui without spending more money; can also not give an inch to Wu Yingxiong's dog thief at the court meeting, and let the dog thief steal chickens without eating rice, and can't take out the extra silver to fulfill his promise to Aobai, so that Ao Lao thief and Wu dog thief have an estrangement, isn't it killing two birds with one stone? ”

"Yes, I'll let Xiao Weizi arrange for people to steal Wu Sangui's secret letter." Kangxi nodded and agreed with Su Malagu's suggestion. Hearing this, Hu Gongshan, who was kneeling in front of Xiaozhuang and Kangxi, immediately raised his head and said: "Master, Wu Yingxiong's house is guarded by a large number of Wu Sangui guards, and there is also an emperor's master who is good at martial arts. Only by letting the minions go, can there be any hope of success. ”

"Very good, you go, as long as you succeed in getting Wu Fan's secret letter, I will be rewarded." Kangxi Daxi agreed. Hu Gongshan kowtowed and was about to get up, but Xiaozhuang suddenly shouted: "Wait! Hu Gongshan, the mourning family still has something to ask you, how did you know the news of Wu Sangui's secret letter? Is the person who provided this information reliable? ”

"The slave returned to the ancestor, this news was provided by the slave's subordinates lurking in Wu Yingxiong's house." Hu Gongshan replied respectfully: "The subordinates of the slaves, the ancestors may still have the impression that they used to be palace maids in the palace, and later they were sent by the ancestors to Wu Yingxiong's house to serve Princess Jianning, and then one of them was also accepted by Wu Yingxiong. The information they provided shouldn't be much of a problem. ”

"It's them." Xiaozhuang nodded, because last time he instructed Yun Sleeve to provoke Wu He to fight with Ne Mo, Xiao Zhuang did have some impressions of these undercover palace maids. Xiaozhuang groaned: "Yes, they are all Han Army bannermen, and the lives of their parents and family members are in the hands of the Zongren Mansion, they should not dare to lie or rebel." ”

"Since the old ancestor thinks that they don't dare to lie, then the minions will do it?" Hu Gongshan asked tentatively. Xiaozhuang was silent, still hesitating, and after a while, he said to himself: "Strange, it's not surprising that Wu Sangui has a reserve price to negotiate with the imperial court, but this reserve price can be directly played by the Ming imperial court, so why use a secret letter to tell Wu Yingxiong?" Isn't that redundant? ”

"Ancestor, please forgive the slave for talking too much." Su Malagu interjected: "Maybe the ancestor was too worried, according to the foolish opinion of the slave maid, then Wu Sangui drove the rebellious army into Sichuan, but the army was short of food and salary and unwilling to disarm, and by the way, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to rob, so he came up with this strategy." Therefore, Wu Sangui repaired a letter to Wu Yingxiong, telling him the number of military salaries that the Yunnan army really needed, and asked Wu Yingxiong to ask for as much silver as he could, but at least to reach that amount. ”

"It makes sense, the little girl has grown." Xiaozhuang thought about it too, and praised Aunt Su Mala casually. Although Xiaozhuang's suspicions are slightly solved, but the experience of crawling and rolling in the political arena for many years has always reminded Xiaozhuang not to be gullible, Xiaozhuang is most worried now that Wu Yingxiong is following Jiang Gan's example of stealing books, playing a counter-strategy, maybe the number of military salaries on the secret letter is the number of military salaries that Wu Yingxiong is ready to extort from the imperial court. However, Xiaozhuang could not refuse the temptation of a huge military salary for the imperial court, not to mention that this move may also divide the relationship between Ao Bai and Wu Sangui? After thinking about it for a long time, Xiaozhuang was already in his chest, and said coldly: "Okay, let's let Monk Geng Xinghe test Wu Yingxiong's tone first, Hu Gongshan, you go and arrange ...... like this." ”

The north wind rises again, the snowflakes fly silently with the wind, fluttering like goose feathers, happy the princes and nobles, hugging the furnace to enjoy the snow and taste the wine; The common people suffered, lacked food and clothing, and had no livelihood. On this snowy night, when it was close to Hai Shi, two horse-drawn carriages that were extremely luxurious greeted the snowflakes, surrounded by a large number of servants and maids carrying cages and birds, and stopped at the door of Wu Yingxiong's house in Shihu Hutong almost at the same time.

Because Wu Yuanming's greed for life and fear of death and his enemies are all over the world, at this moment, Wu Yingxiong's family has been surrounded by Wu Sangui's own regiments, and the two carriages have not stopped, and dozens of heavily armed Wu Sangui guard soldiers have surrounded the carriage, but these two groups of people did not show obvious hostility, and most of the servants and maids surrounding the carriage were also frightened by the bright knives and guns of Wu Sangui's guards. Therefore, Wu Sangui's guards did not ask fiercely, but a chief stepped forward and asked: "Dare to ask you if you are the entourage of that adult, what are you doing in Shihu Hutong late at night?" ”

"I have heard for a long time that Wu Shibo is strict in governing the army, and when I see it today, it really deserves its reputation." "The division of tigers and wolves, the real division of tigers and wolves." With the equally polite voices of these two different masters, two handsome young men in gray squirrel fur jackets, each with two unusually feminine maids, got out of the two carriages, and behind them, two equally feminine and beautiful maids each got out of the carriage with brass hand stoves. A cold wind blew, and one of the handsome young men shivered, quickly snatched the hand stove with snow silk and silver charcoal, covered his hands and said: "Annoying, Geng Xinghe, the younger brother of Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, asked to see Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxi, and asked the prince to meet him." ”

"In Xiapingnan, King Shang Kexi is the third son of Shang, and he is also asking to see the prince of Pingxi." Another handsome young man was a little more resistant to the cold, shook his oily and slippery braids, and added with a smile: "Actually, this is also the words of the official, in terms of kinship, your family and we are still uncles." ”

"It turned out to be Lord Geng and Lord Monk, two adults, please wait a moment, the boy will go to report to the world." Wu Sangui's guard was startled, and hurriedly rushed in to report to Wu Yuanming. Although Wu Yuanming is already asleep in the study at the moment, he is sure that he will not be scolded by Wu Yuanming - just kidding, Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi, Jingnan King Geng Jingzhong and Pingxi King Wu Sangui have a good relationship with almost wearing a pair of pants, their younger brother and son came to find Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingxiong is not to mention sleeping, even if he is rolling a quilt with his wife, he has to get up to greet him.

"Monk Geng Xinghe's gift to see?" Contrary to the expectations of the head of Wu Sangui's guard, Wu Yuanming, who was sleeping like a dead pig, was woken up, and he was not at all happy or nervous when he heard that the Shijiao brothers were coming, but rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes and muttered: "In the middle of the night, what can you do when you come to me?" "To be honest, Wu Yuanming did not have a good impression of Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, in the struggle between the three feudatories and the imperial court in history, Geng Shang's two families hid behind Wu Sangui to pick up cheap, and from time to time they also added some chaos to Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui's military salary rose, they followed the rise, Wu Sangui's military salary was lowered, they preemptively asked the court for military salary, and they were loyal ministers and filial sons to let Wu Sangui be evil ghosts. When it came time for Wu Sangui to raise troops, these two families did even more desperately, Wu Sangui with Yunnan and Guizhou, two provinces short of food and few soldiers, alone resisted ninety percent of the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Geng and Shang families, who occupied the two rich lands of Guangdong and Fujian, preserved their strength in the back, while occupying the land laid down by Wu Sangui's army, while colluding with the Qing court, Wu Sangui took the lead in surrendering to the Qing court as soon as Wu Sangui died. The rebellion of the three feudatories was unsuccessful, and Wu Sangui chose these two allies wrongly.

"Of course, it's the weasel who greets the chickens, and there's no kindness." Because he taught Wu Yuanming the way of officialdom in the study at night, Yao Qisheng slept with Wu Yuanming tonight, and the old fox sneered while sitting up from the bed: "Two days ago, Kangxi gave each of them ten beautiful palace maids, and I heard that they are all virgins, and these two guys are so grateful that they want to lick Kangxi's groove." According to the old Huazi, they came to you tonight, and they were assigned by Kangxi. ”

"What the father-in-law said is very true, so what should the child do?" With Yao Lao Fox as a backer, Wu Yuanming didn't even bother to use his brain, and asked Yao Qisheng directly. At the same time, Wu Yuanming was also indignant in his heart, and said in his heart, Kang Xiaomazi, you really did it, and gave my two uncles ten beautiful virgins each, why don't you send me one or two-didn't I just beat you up?

"You go to the living room to meet them, no matter what they say, you don't have to answer accurately." Yao Qisheng rolled his eyes and said, "I'm listening to your conversation in the back hall, if you have any questions, I will cough to remind you." ”

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After returning to the Qing Dynasty, Wu Yuanming saw Geng Xinghe and Shang Zhili for the first time, the two brothers and uncles, and Wu Yingxiong, Geng and Shang, who could marry the princess of the Xinjue Luo family, were also handsome and extraordinarily handsome, and compared with Wu Yuanming, who was full of ruffians, the temperament of these two wine-colored people seemed more elegant and chic, and they were more able to please men and women - of course, Wu Yuanming himself was an exception. However, what made Wu Yuanming angry was still behind, these two guys put Wu Yuanming's sandalwood chair and didn't sit, and even brought a red mahogany chair by themselves, and other things such as charcoal stoves, cushions, hand towels, tea, refreshments and snuff were all brought by themselves, and even the water for making tea was their own Yuquan mountain spring water, and even sitting on the chair, there were four stunning maids beating their backs and rubbing their waists. It really made Wu Yuanming, the master, lose face and be very jealous.

"The last time my brother went to look for me at home, my foolish brother happened to go to Baiyun to watch the snow." Because Shang Zhili and Geng Xinghe are both one year younger than Wu Yuanming, the two guys are called Wu Yuanming's brother, and Shang Zhili, who let Wu Yuanming eat a closed door last time, apologized to Wu Yuanming and said: "Let the world brother run for nothing, and the sin of the foolish brother is also." Geng Xinghe also said: "That day, the foolish brother also went to the Baiyun Temple, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the snow and made a lot of good poems. ”

"My own brother, why be so polite?" Wu Yuanming yawned and said seemingly unintentionally: "I heard that Brother Shang and Brother Geng not only did a good job of poetry in Baiyun Temple that day, but also saw a beautiful woman with a thousand charms, feasting their eyes, I wonder if the rumors are wrong?" ”

"Brother Shi is really well-informed, which is admirable." Geng Xinghe was also refreshed, and did not hide the fact that he met Aunt Su Mala with the gift of the monk, and recalled with great longing: "That Sister Man, really deserves the four words of a stunning beauty, when she is a shy flower in the closed moon, and the country and the city." ”

"It's a pity that she doesn't love hygiene." Wu Yuanming muttered in his heart. And Shang Zhili didn't care that he was hugging the four stunning maids, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that this Sister Man is already famous, her sweetheart Mr. Wu is not only far above us in character and demeanor, but also a hundred times more knowledgeable and poetic, and Sister Man is really a match made in heaven, which is really enviable." ”

"Stop, stop." Wu Yuanming yawned, very rudely interrupted Geng Xinghe's gift to confide his love to Aunt Su Mala behind his back, Wu Yuanming asked straight to the point: "Brother Geng, Brother Shang, we don't talk darkly, you two veterans of flowers and gentlemen in wine visited the mansion late at night, you should not just come to talk to me about Fengyue, right?" My own brother, please say anything clearly. ”

"This ......." Geng Xinghe's monk gift, you look at me, I look at you, they are all spitting and refusing to speak. It wasn't until the tired Wu Yuanming urged again and again that Geng Xinghe said with a smile on his face: "That's the case, we heard that the world brother has a new concubine, and he specially came to ask for peace for his sister-in-law." Geng Xinghe's crooked attack surprised Wu Yuanming, almost making Wu Yuanming suspect that they were here to inquire about Mu Meng's situation, but Shang Zhili's next words almost didn't make Wu Yuanming's nose crooked, "Yes, yes, we heard that the red peony girl was originally the maid of Her Royal Highness the princess, she must be extremely beautiful, otherwise she can enter the eyes of the brother?" ”

"Enough!" Wu Yuanming, who hadn't slept for two days, was furious, slapped the table and yelled: "You two don't talk nonsense, is it worth it for you to visit me late at night if I take a concubine?" You two are looking for me in the middle of the night, what is the matter? When he said this, Wu Yuanming also gave a look to the soldiers who came with him, and asked him to order the guards to strengthen their vigilance, in case these two drunken people diverted their attention from Hu Gongshan, so that Hu Gongshan could take the opportunity to sneak into his old nest.

In Wu Yuanming's opinion, if someone is so rude to him, then he will definitely fight back! But Geng Xinghe, the two guys of Monk Zhili, disappointed Wu Yuanming again, and the two of them were so frightened by Wu Yuanming's casual roar that they stood up, and their two faces coated with rouge and white powder were actually a little pale, and the panicked and terrifying expression made Wu Yuanming a little embarrassed. For the sake of the friends who were also hostages in Kangxi's hands, Wu Yuanming softened his breath, waved his hand and said: "Don't blame the two brothers, the foolish brother hasn't slept for two nights, so his temper is a little big, don't take it to heart." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Geng Xinghe said in fear: "Brother Shi, we came to you together tonight, mainly to ask you how much military salary you want at the court meeting during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. ”

Shang Zhili also said tremblingly: "So the two of us want to inquire about the amount you are asking for, brother, and our two families can also open up to the imperial court." ”

"Are you two idiots or straw bales?" Wu Yuanming looked at the servants and maids in the hall, among them were not only the subordinates of Wu Yingxiong's family, but also the subordinates and maids brought by Geng and Shang - among them, I don't know how many Kangxi and Aobai's spies were hidden. Angry, Wu Yuanming frowned and muttered in his heart, "In front of so many unreliable outsiders, it is up to you two fools to talk about the salary of the three feudal clans!" ”