Kangxi's hands trembled, and he slowly grabbed the pair of white and attractive chicken head breasts on Hui'er's little girl's chest, while Hui'er closed her eyes tightly, and tears of resignation were already flowing from the corners of her eyes. But at this moment, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, and then the anxious voice of Zhang Wanqiang, the chief eunuch of the Sixth Palace, came, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something is wrong, Xiangye Ao is here!" ”

"Aobai, he's so bold!" Kangxi let go of Hui'er's little girl, jumped up from the big kang, and roared angrily: "Trespassing on the harem is a big crime of killing the head, does he really want to rebel?" Kangxi shouted toughly, but he was panicked in his heart, the head of the guards of the Forbidden City is Ao Bai's godson Nemo, and most of the imperial guards are Ao Bai's henchmen, although Kangxi has been deliberately encroaching on the control of the Forbidden City over the years, and installed Sun Dianchen, Cao Yin, Wolf Tan, Wei Dongting, Donkey and Mu Zixu and other henchmen to supplement the guard team, but the number of people only accounts for one-third of the total number of imperial guards at most, and they are still in a weak position, if Ao Bai really chooses to rebel and make chaos today, Kangxi's manpower in the Forbidden City is definitely not enough to resist Aobai.

Thinking of this, Kangxi hurriedly ordered: "Quick, quickly send someone to the Taihe Hall to send a decree to Wu Liuyi, and ask him to transfer the army of the infantry army to lead the yamen into the palace!" Wait a minute! It was only at this moment that Kangxi realized that he had forgotten an important question, and hurriedly asked: "Zhang Wanqiang, how many people did Ao Bai bring into the harem?" Did you bring the army into the palace? ”

"Back to the emperor, Xiangye Ao did not lead the army into the palace." Zhang Wanqiang's answer made Kangxi breathe a sigh of relief, but Zhang Wanqiang's next words made Kangxi's heart rise to his throat again, "Your Majesty, Xiangye Ao is the harem where Lord Wei Dongting and Cao Yin Cao guards entered. According to Ao Xiangye, Wei Dongting and Cao Yin committed the big crime of raiding their homes and destroying the door, and they were stolen by Ao Xiangye. Now the Empress Dowager's ancestor has met with Ao Xiangye and his party in Cining Palace, and the ancestor asked the servants to come to the emperor as soon as possible, and ask the emperor to go to Cining Palace to discuss matters quickly. ”

"Xiao Weizi and Cao Yin, they committed the big crime of raiding their homes and destroying their homes? Returning the stolen goods and getting them? Kangxi almost couldn't believe his ears, in Kangxi's opinion, Wei Dongting and Cao Yin were absolutely loyal to him - the same is true for the spies who ambushed in their house, although there is a loss in the subsection, but when it comes to violating the law of the country and being caught by Aobai, it should be impossible. Zhang Wanqiang pulled the throat of the male duck and replied: "Back to the emperor, Ao Xiangye said that Lord Wei and Cao Guards were guilty of the following crimes, in a vain attempt to kill Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxi. ”

"Kill Brother Wu? So how is Brother Wu now? Hui'er, who had fallen into despair, opened her eyes sharply and asked anxiously. Kangxi next to him was furious, and said in his heart that this girl still refused to forget Wu Yingxiong's traitor. In the midst of jealousy and anger, without waiting for Zhang Wanqiang to answer, Kangxi had already pushed Hui'er away and rushed out, shouting: "Zhang Wanqiang, drive Cining Palace." Outside the room, Zhang Wanqiang hurriedly sang: "Long live the Lord and drive Cining Palace." The palace maids, eunuchs and guards outside hurriedly stood in formation, set up the emperor's guard of honor, and rushed to Cining Palace with the anxious Kangxi in their arms.

"Brother Wu." Hui'er's little girl knew very well that Kangxi deliberately did not let herself know about Wu Yingxiong's situation, but this little girl cared about Wu Yingxiong to the point of recklessness, knowing that she would definitely be punished for doing so, but she still picked up the clothes that were taken off the ground and put them on indiscriminately, sneaked out of the door in chaos, and ran all the way through Cimeng Building and Linxi Pavilion to the right-wing gate, and wanted to take the right-wing gate to the noon gate to see Wu Yingxiong's situation.

The little girl's luck is very good, because of the Ao Bai Chuang Palace, the royal front in the area of Cimeng Building and Linxi Pavilion that she passed through has been quickly transferred to Cining Palace by Xiaozhuang (Note 1) to support, the little girl ran all the way, and there was no obstruction on the road, but when she arrived at the right wing gate, the royal guard on duty in front of the right wing door saw her wearing the palace maid's costume and shouted: "That is such a wild palace maid who does not understand the rules?" Running around the palace and don't want to die? Go back! ”

"Get out of the way! I'm the daughter of the Cabinet University Priest Soetu, and I have an urgent matter to leave the palace! The little girl ran to the door of the right wing in disheveled clothes, trying to break out, but the guards believed her, and one of the guards stopped her with open arms and shouted, "Go back!" dared to pretend to be the minister's daughter to break into the door, and he was really impatient. The other guard glanced at the pretty and touching Hui'er, and said with a wicked smile: "This little girl is not bad-looking, so I just arrested her directly and took her to Lord Zhao Bingchen for punishment." ”

As he spoke, the guard directly reached out to grab Hui'er's little girl's arm, looking at the expression and hand shape, he should have wanted to rub some oil on the little girl's small breasts that had begun to take shape. The other guards were not a good thing, and when they saw this, they also stretched out their clutches one after another, and all of them stretched out to the petite body of Hui'er's little girl, which scared the little girl so much that she screamed, "Help!" Scholar Sou is really my Amma! But the guards were obsessed, and they were willing to let go of the little lamb that was delivered to the door, and just reached out and touched it, but at this moment, an old voice came, "Stop! ”

"Containment Hall." When the guards turned around and saw that the speaker turned out to be the auxiliary minister Ji Bilong, they were all frightened, and they hurriedly let go of Hui'er's little girl and bowed her hand to Ji Bilong: "The slave has seen Ji Zhongtang. But Kupilon, who has always been known for his easy-going personality, suddenly became extremely stern, and shouted angrily: "In broad daylight, in the palace, a few of you dare to behave like beasts to the daughters of the ministers of the imperial court, Wei Dongting and Wolf Tan** are good servants. ”

"Curb Zhongtang, the little ones are the minions of the head of Nemo." One of the guards argued. But Ji Bilong waved his hand arrogantly and shouted: "Don't slander good people, the right wing gate is under the jurisdiction of the head of the guards of the Taihe Palace, Wolf Tan, and Guan Nemo is a big deal!" Come on, take down these dog minions and hand them over to Chief Nemo to punish the crime! "Kupilon is not only one of the four auxiliary ministers, but also the errand of the minister of the guard, and has the right to dispatch and reward and punish the imperial guards, although the general ministers of the guard do not dare to offend the servants in the palace, let alone make the emperor feel that they beat the dog and do not look at the master's face, but this right is real. Therefore, after the order was given, the other imperial guards of the right wing gate had to go up and take down those unlucky people.

"Xiangye, I'm Zhaohui, I heard that someone is going to murder Brother Wu, is he okay?" Hui'er's little girl was so anxious that she forgot to even cry about the rudeness of the guards, and just asked Wu Yingxiong about his safety. Kubilong had already recognized the identity of Hui'er's little girl, nodded and replied, "Don't worry, the prince of Pingxi is fine now." Only then did the little girl put the heart that mentioned her throat back into her stomach, and pleaded with Ji Bilong: "Master Ji Xiang, I want to go to the noon gate to see Brother Wu, please let them let me go out." ”

"There you go." Kubilong nodded and said: "The current guard foreman of the Wumen Gate is Liu Jinbiao, the brother of Namo, and you told him that I let you out, and he will not embarrass you." "It turned out that after Wei Dongting, the deputy head of the imperial guards, and Cao Yin, the foreman of the guards of the Chengqian Palace, were taken down, the guards who were attached to them immediately fell apart, and Nemo immediately let his people take over the defense area they were responsible for, and took the opportunity to seize several of the most important positions, and even the defense of the noon gate of the Forbidden City was snatched by Nemo, which can be described as fruitful. The Kangxi family suffered heavy losses, and four-fifths of the control of the Forbidden City had been handed over to the Aobai henchmen.

"Thank you for holding back the middle hall." The little girl Hui'er was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran out of the right wing door, but when she passed by Kupilon's side, an old man wearing a servant costume suddenly flashed behind him, but it was the old army that Liu Xuanchu asked Wu Yuanming to bring into the palace, and the old soldier whispered: "Miss Zhaohui, please stay." The little girl stopped slightly, and the old soldier hurriedly leaned over and whispered, "Miss Zhaohui, if you want to save your big brother Wu, you must ......." ”

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When the mysterious old army and Hui'er's little girl talked in a low voice, Kubilong, who was responsible for the emperor's errand, had already let people escort those unlucky guards into the harem through the right wing door, and walked along the way Hui'er's little girl came to Cimenglou and entered the Cining Palace where Xiaozhuang lived through Ciningmen. Both sides obviously took on the orders of their own sons to contact with Curb Pilon, and almost at the same time performed exactly the same etiquette to Curb Pillon, and said in unison: "The minions have seen Curb Zhongtang. ”

"No courtesy." Suppilon waved his hand. Ne Mo and Li Xu straightened up at the same time, both wanting to speak, but when they found that the other party was also speaking, the two big enemies couldn't help but glare at each other fiercely, and at the same time clenched their fists. Ji Bilong was angry and funny, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It seems that both of you have something to say to Ji Mou, so let's do it, Lord Nemo, the old man and you will talk to the side first; Master Li, you just have to wait a minute. After that, he didn't care whether Li Xu agreed or not, he picked up Nemo and walked to the left side of Cining Gate.

"Master Nemo, does Ao Zhongtang have something to tell the old man? Please say it. Suppilon smiled at Nemo. Ne Mo was not polite, and said in a big way: "Ji Zhongtang, I think you also know about Wei Dongting and Cao Yin, now their murder of the imperial court officials and the prince has been confirmed, the evidence is conclusive, the human and material evidence is complete, and there is no denial, but it is very doubtful that there is no mastermind behind them." Now the Empress Dowager's ancestor means to listen to the opinions of the Emperor Dowager, and by the way, let the Emperor of the Middle Hall take charge of this case, so Xiang Ye Ao wants to ask the Emperor to worry about it, and advocate that there is a mastermind behind this matter, and by the way, carefully torture Wei Dongting and Cao Yin who is the mastermind behind the scenes! ”

Speaking of this, Ne Mo's voice was lowered, "Of course, Xiangye Ao will not let the son of the Containment Hall work hard, hasn't the son of the Suppression Hall always wanted to be released?" Now that the two Huai salt transport envoys are vacant, Ao Zhongtang wants to sponsor Ling Gongzi to serve as this errand. "The salt of the Qing Dynasty was the monopoly of the imperial court, and the annual salt tax (Note 1) of the two Huai was more than 10 million, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the salt transport envoy of the two Huai was the first fat shortage in the world. Ao Bai offered such a big price to woo Curb Pilon, but Curb Pilon was not very eager, but just smiled at Ne Mo and said: "Lord Ne Mo, since Ao Xiangye thinks that there is someone behind Wei Dongting and Cao Yin, then who will this person be?" ”

"Just now in the court, the people who led the Yamen of the infantry army tried to kill people and kill people, will Wu Liuyi, the commander of the Nine Gates, be implicated in this case?" Ne Mo said gloomily. Ji Bilong's heart was bright, and he knew that Aobai wanted to use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring Wu Liuyi down and let Aobai's own people take over Jiumen, so that Kangxi and the Empress Dowager would really become the turtle in the urn of Aobai. Thinking of this, Ji Bilong couldn't help but secretly admire the prescience of the mysterious old army that Liu Xuanchu asked Wu Yuanming to bring into the palace, and at the same time, the words of the old army also echoed in Ji Bilong's ears, "Ji Zhongtang, between Ao Xiangye and the emperor, they must not be allowed to distinguish the winner from the loser, otherwise no matter who wins or loses, you and I will become a thorn in the side of the victor." Only by letting them continue to fight and continue to divide equally, can the two of us reap the benefits ...... from the middle. ”

"What are you thinking?" Seeing the mysterious smile on Ji Bilong's face but not saying a word, Ne Mo couldn't help but ask: "Ji Zhongtang, what do you think of what Xiang Ye Ao means?" Can you give me an accurate word? Xiangye is still waiting for the slave's letter. ”

"Please tell Master Ao Xiangye, please rest assured that the old man knows how to do it." He replied vaguely, but he mistakenly thought that he had given an accurate answer, and happily went in to give Ao Bai an answer. Curb Pilon walked to the right side of Cining Gate again, Li Xu here was already impatient, and when he saw Curb Billon, he said nervously: "Curb Zhongtang, what did Ne Mo say to you just now?" Curb Zhongtang, you are one of the four auxiliary ministers of the emperor's order, the holy family is prosperous, but don't forget the emperor's kindness to the middle hall. ”

"Don't worry, Lord Li, although Na Mo wants the old man to drag Wu Liuyi, the commander of the Nine Gates, into the water, but what kind of person is the old man, and how can he be bewitched by this young person?" Suppilon smiled and replied in a bad way. Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and said: "Curb Zhongtang, you should always know about Dongting and Brother Yin, the villain will not repeat it, this matter is now conclusive and undoubted, even the executioner confessed that he was instructed by Wei Dongting to take Wu Yingxiong's life, and the emperor had no way to protect Wei Dongting and Brother Yin." Therefore, the ancestor of the Empress Dowager meant to let Ji Zhongtang preside over the trial of the case, but Ao Bai insisted that Wei Dongting and Brother Yin had another mastermind behind the scenes, and wanted to try Wei Dongting and Brother Yin as accomplices. ”

"What does the Empress Dowager's ancestor mean?" Kupilon's eyes were blazing, staring at Li Xu's eyes and asking, "Is it advocating that there is another mastermind?" Or do you advocate that Wei Dongting and Cao Yin resist this charge? ”

"Dongting and Brother Yin did such a thing because they had a personal grudge with Wu Yingxiong, and they were confused for a while, so who is behind the scenes?" Li Xu hung his head and said: "So what the ancestor means is that whoever commits a crime and resists, don't implicate other people, our Qing Dynasty has not been in the country for a long time, and we can't withstand the big turmoil." ”

"Lose the pawn and protect the car." Ji Bilong said contemptuously in his heart, but Ji Bilong knew that Li Xu would definitely relay the benefits that Kangxi was going to give him next, so he didn't speak. Sure enough, Li Xu really smiled and said: "Ji Zhongtang, the emperor has one more thing for the slave to tell you, last time I arranged for the son of the Emperor to go to Wuhu to transport grain, the emperor felt that it was not suitable, the corruption of the Sichuan Salt Tea Ceremony in the past few days has been committed, and someone needs to take over, I wonder if the son of the Emperor is interested in taking over?" ”

"It's really stingy, a three-year Sichuan salt tea ceremony, I'm afraid it's not as good as two Huai salt transportation for one year." Suppilon muttered inwardly. Kubilong pretended to think for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Please tell the emperor and the empress dowager to the ancestors, and the slaves will know what to do." ”

Like treating Nemo, Curb Pilon also agreed with vague words, but unlike Ne Mo, Li Xu, who received Curb Pillon's reply, did not leave immediately, but whispered to Curb Billon: "Curb Zhongtang, there is something that the slave wants to plead with Zhongtang, and I hope Zhongtang agrees." After receiving the reply that Kubilong continued, Li Xu said softly: "Zhongtang, although my brother-in-law Cao Yin is inevitably involved in this matter, he is Wei Dongting's subordinate, and he is more implicated. If Lord Zhongtang can make this point clear in the trial of this case, and let Wei Dongting resist the main responsibility, the slave and the slave's brother-in-law will be grateful to Zhongtang for the rest of his life. Speaking of this, Li Xu's voice was lower, "There are a few thirteen or fourteen-year-old actors in the slave's family, and their appearance and singing are still passable, the slave wants to honor them to Zhongtang, and I hope Zhongtang will not shirk." ”

"Is it singing Yiyang? The old man likes Yiyang dialect the most. "Don't want the beauties who came to the door for nothing, and Curb Pilon is not stupid enough to be that far. Li Xu hurriedly replied: "Lord Zhongtang, don't worry, those plays of the slave family have been ** since the age of six, and they are quite skilled in Yiyang dialect and Kunqu opera. ”

"Very good, then the old man is disrespectful." Ji Bilong smiled and nodded, Li Xu was overjoyed, hurriedly gave Ji Bilong a fist bow, and rushed into Cining Palace to report the news. Kubilong walked to the main gate of Cining Palace unhurriedly, and said loudly to Li Yinzheng, the eunuch in charge of Cining Palace, who was waiting for him in front of the palace gate: "Annoyed Gonggong Li's report, the servant Kubilong asks to see!" ”

"Please!"

Note 1: The salt tax of the Qing Dynasty was not all handed over to the state treasury as stated in the pigtail play, but most of it was handed over to the emperor's special internal affairs office, and the silver of the internal affairs office was all the emperor's pocket money except for the annual money and grain issued to the banner people. In addition to the salt tax, part of Ding Yin (poll tax) and local silver, the income of Guangdong Customs and Hushu Pass, and part of the tea silk porcelain and other taxes are directly assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the income of the Imperial Village, all of which are also assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the land area of the Manchu Huangzhuang accounts for more than half of the country's land, so most of the time, the annual fiscal revenue of the Internal Affairs Office is more than the national treasury! This is also the reason why Wu Yuanming dared to ask the imperial court for a military salary that exceeded the amount of silver in the national treasury - he was eyeing Kangxi's pocket money.