"Shizi, we brought the things." Wu Fu and Wu Shou carried a wine jar into Wu Yuanming's study, and Wu Fu whispered to Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming blinked vigilantly and ordered: "Wu Lu, Wu Xi, you two go outside the study to watch, and someone will immediately send a code when someone approaches the study." Wu Lu and Wu Xi left in response, and Wu Fu opened the mud seal of the wine jar, took out a wet sealed oil paper bag from the wine jar full of rice wine and handed it to Wu Yuanming.

"It's so delicately hidden, Dad's spy really isn't covered." Wu Yuanming secretly praised in his heart, and Wu Fu said in a low voice: "Shizi, according to the person who contacted me, this oil paper bag contains the basic information of the civil and military officials and relatives of the emperor in the capital, as well as their activities in the past few days. In the other jars, there were ten Russian muskets and some buckshots. Rest assured, we were very careful to observe all the way, and no one followed us. ”

"Very well done, you guys should also go out and wait, if the princess suddenly comes here, just say that I am drinking and talking with General Huangfu Baozhu." Wu Yuanming nodded, and waited for Wu Fu and Wu Shou to also go out. Wu Yuanming opened the oil-paper bag sealed with wax, and the paper bag contained six thick account books, each of which was densely filled with fly-headed small letters, which were divided into categories, all of which were characters with heads and faces in the capital, up to Kangxi, Xiaozhuang and Aobai, down to the six-step chief and deputy hall officials, the chief and deputy commanders of the Eight Banners and the famous Qingliu, and even some famous merchants and wealthy merchants in the capital, all of which have detailed and detailed records. And many of the situations are everyone's personal privacy, I really don't know how Wu Sangui's spies found out.

Wu Yuanming is currently most concerned about the true attitude of Aobai and Kangxi joining forces, so he first found Aobai, only to see the first article of intelligence described: Aobai, fifty-four years old, the first assistant minister of the study, and the main ...... of the yellow flag. "I know all of that." Wu Yuanming muttered a sentence to skip Aobai's resume, and directly looked at Aobai's actions in the past two days, as described above: On the eighth day of the first month of the eighth year of Kangxi, Aobai went to his brother Mulima Mansion to celebrate his birthday, and shared the congratulatory gift with his brother equally, and received 120,000 taels of silver, which was deposited in Jufeng Yinhao; That night, Ao Bai and Bamburshan had a secret conversation for three hours, the content of which was unknown. On the ninth day of the first month, Prince Kang Jieshu deposited 25,000 taels of silver from the Qianqing Palace built by the Internal Affairs Office into the Jufeng Silver No., and the silver ticket was sent into the hands of Aobai; After a while, Bambul entered the Ao Bai Mansion, left at night, Ao Bai entered the palace to go to the banquet, and the Empress Dowager, the Kangxi Emperor had a secret conversation for an hour, the specific content of the conversation is unknown, and the Kangxi Emperor issued a decree to add Ao Bai as a first-class auxiliary prince, plus the title of Taishi.

"Old man Ao is really good at fishing, and he has fished more than 100,000 taels of silver in a few days." Wu Yuanming muttered and looked at the last line of the information, and stood up with just one glance at Wu Yuanming - the information read: On the tenth day of the first month of the ninth year of Kangxi, Ao Bai summoned more than 20 people including his cronies Mu Lima, Bambulshan, Taibitu, and Jishi to enter the house for talks, and the specific content of the conversation is being investigated. Wu Yuanming's heart was shocked, and he said in his heart, isn't the tenth day of the first month today?

"It's not good, Old Man Ao must be discussing how to join forces with Kangxi to deal with our Wu family!" Based on the information provided by Xiao Maozi, Wu Yuanming immediately guessed what Ao Bai and the others were discussing at the moment. Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately hid the six account books close to him, pulled up the Huangfu Baozhu and rushed out of the study, shouting: "Wu Lu Wu Shou Wu Xi, hurry up and prepare the car, let's go to Ao Xiangye's house." ”

Against the bitter cold wind, Wu Yuanming and others drove all the way, knocking over two vegetable stalls on the way, crushing a stray dog, racing against time to find Ao Bai before Ao Bai and others decided, and striving to separate the relationship between him and Kangxi. But when Wu Yuanming arrived in front of the gate of Aobai's house, the time was still a step too late - Aobai's cronies Mulima, Taibitu and Jishi had already come out of the gate of Aobai's house, either on horseback or in a sedan chair, and were about to leave here. Seeing Wu Yuanming coming in a hurry, these officials who were so affectionate with Wu Yuanming the day before yesterday that they were like brothers-in-law and brother-in-law all pretended to be deaf and dumb, as if they didn't see Wu Yuanming, and no one came up to say hello. Only Mu Lima couldn't get in the way because the carriage he took this time was the European-style luxury carriage that Wu Yuanming gave him, so Mu Lima smiled at Wu Yuanming, but then immediately got into the carriage and left as fast as a leper.

"Oops, it looks like things have been agreed." Seeing this scene, cold sweat broke out on Wu Yuanming's forehead, and he said in his heart that if it weren't for Ao Bai instructing them not to touch themselves, they wouldn't dare to treat the dignified prince of Pingxi with such an attitude. Anxious, Wu Yuanming hurriedly handed the famous thorn to the doorman of Ao Mansion, and said respectfully: "I am tired of informing Ao Xiangye, Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxi, asked to see him, and I hope that Ao Xiangye will meet him." ”

"Wu Shizi, I'm sorry." Goshha of the gatehouse of Naao Mansion smiled with a smile on his face, nodded and said: "Our family is sick and has never seen a guest, so please come another day." ”

"Sick? Never seen a guest? Huangfu Baozhu asked angrily: "Then what happened to leaving these people just now?" ”

If the entourage of other guests dared to speak like this to Aobai's Goshha, then Goshha in Aofu would have been furious, but these Goshha had been repeatedly instructed by Aobai, and Wu Yingxiong could not be offended, nor could Wu Yingxiong be allowed to enter the mansion. So Na Goshha laughed and said: "This master Mingjian, they didn't see Xiangye when they came here just now, so they had to leave." ”

"Dog minions, I saw them come out of the mansion with my own eyes, how can I say that I haven't seen Ao Xiangye?" Huangfu Baozhu Tiger roared. Nagoshha was still not angry, and replied with a smile: "Master, you have wronged the slave." They just waited in the concierge for a while, and Xiangye was sick and didn't want to see anyone, so they had to leave, so you always saw them coming out of the house. ”

Na Goshha said everything with a smiling face, and the Huangfu Baozhu, who wanted to deliberately provoke him to kill him, was embarrassed to start, so he had to turn his gaze to Wu Yuanming to see what Wu Yuanming was going to do. And Wu Yuanming pondered for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's come back to visit Ao Xiang another day." Wu Yuanming turned around and walked quickly into the car, shouting: "Quick, go find Shang Zhili and Geng Xinghe, it's too late." ”

The carriage rushed all the way and arrived at Shang Zhili's house first, but Wu Yuanming was one step too late. The porter of Shangfu told Wu Yingxiong that this morning, Shang Zhili was invited by Geng Xinghe and a group of literary friends to go to Baiyun in western Beijing to watch the snow, and to chant poetry right, and when leaving, Shang Zhili also said that he would not go home tonight and would spend the night outside. And Wu Yuanming's eleventh sister-in-law, that is, Shang Zhili's wife and Princess Jianning's eleventh sister, pulled Wu Yuanming to cry and howl, and insisted that Shang Zhili followed the gang of bad friends to prostitute and sleep with prostitutes, she had to hang herself and wipe her neck. It took Wu Yuanming a lot of effort to get rid of her, and he almost escaped from Shangzhili Mansion.

"Xiao Mazi is really ruthless, he saw the weaknesses of Shang Zhili and Geng Xinghe!" Wu Yuanming scolded in his heart. It turns out that unlike Wu Yuanming, who is honest and never greedy for flowers and lustful, Shang Geng and the others are both swingers who pretend to be merry and talented, and they only like to chant poems and make the moon on weekdays, look for flowers and ask willows, and never ask about government affairs. In Xiong Cixu's words, the two of them have a slight Jin demeanor, and they are never as majestic as Han officials. Back then, Wang Xu saw the weakness of these two idiots, first convinced them in poetry, and then Kangxi used threats and temptations, one soft and one hard to incite them to support the imperial court to reduce the military salaries of the three feudatories, so that Wu Sangui starved for two years.

"Shizi, since the two adults Geng Shang went to Baiyun in western Beijing to watch the snow, then why should we also go to Baiyun Temple to look for them?" Wu Lu cautiously suggested. Wu Yuanming shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Wu Lu, you don't know, I know astronomy and geography at the top, and I know the astrology at the doctor's level, but I don't know anything about this poetry, even if I go, I can't interject it." Moreover, if the two idiots, Shang Zhili and Geng Xinghe, go there, they will definitely meet three people! ”

"Meet those three?" Including Huangfu Baozhu, several of Wu Yuanming's cronies were confused. Wu Yuanming gritted his teeth and said: "The first one, of course, is the current Long Live Lord Kangxi, the second one, the beauty Su Malagu, and the third one, it is Wu Ciyou, who was beaten by you yesterday." Wu Yuanming shook his head and said: "Kangxi's authority, Su Malagu's beauty, plus Wu Ciyou's poetry and writing, three sides are attacking Shang Zhili and Geng Xinghe. At this time, the two of them were super fools, afraid that they had already knelt in front of Kangxi, crying bitterly and swearing to support the imperial court to reduce our Wu family's army. ”

"Shizi, what should we do now?" Huangfu Baozhu asked. Wu Yuanming gritted his teeth and said: "Go to find someone again, Mulima, Taibitu, Jishi......, the cronies of the old man Ao are looking for them one by one, as long as there is a loose position, this son will come again to eat, two, invite three gifts, four boast, five praise and six courtesy, seven pulls, eight beats, nine kisses, and give women a full complement!" Knock them down one by one with sugar-coated cannonballs! ”

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Just as Wu Yuanming was running around Beijing in order to win allies, a cold wind blew over the gray city of Beijing, and then the goose feathers and snow fell one by one, decorating the city of Beijing into a world of pink carvings in a moment. In the snowflakes, an old man in a tattered cotton coat named Huazi walked through the streets of Beijing, cursing the damn weather while walking, "Goddamn thief, you are fucking blind, why did Lao Tzu just enter Beijing City, and it snowed heavily?" Looking at the sky, this strong wind will blow for three more days, isn't Lao Tzu welcome to Beijing? ”

The old man was about fifty years old, with gray braids and beard, a very small mouse face, and a sharp-beaked monkey gills that were extremely obscene and funny, except for a pair of seemingly cloudy triangular eyes that occasionally flashed a glimmer of essence. If it weren't for the fact that he spoke with a southern accent, this face and his tattered cotton jacket would definitely make people think that he was a common refugee called Huazi or enclosure on the streets of Beijing - because most people think that he is an old Huazi from the south.

"This military master, please...... May I ask how to get to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials? The old man called Hanako stopped a Shuntianfu official who was patrolling the streets, and asked with a shiver in his upper and lower teeth. The official looked at the old man Hanako suspiciously, and shouted: "The old man is called Hanako, what are you doing with the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials?" Want to go there begging for food? ”

"No...... No. Another biting cold wind blew, and the old Hanako shivered again, and replied tremblingly: "Master Jun, isn't the Yamen of the Ministry in charge of the promotion and transfer of officials?" The old man called Hanako was demoted because of dereliction of duty, and he went to the ministry to report on his work and receive the crime. As he spoke, the old man named Hanako took out an official seal from the eighth grade from the pitiful tattered package to prove his identity.

"Yo, what an official." Although the official has no grade and no rank, but in this Beijing city, there are more Wupin prefects and Sipin Daotai than Wang Ba in Yongding River, which is even more valuable than Wang Ba from the eighth grade. Therefore, the official first laughed at the old man called Hanako, and then said in a big way: "Go straight along this street, turn left after five streets, and then go straight to the yamen of the ministry." ”

"Thank you, Master Jun." The old man called Hanako hugged his fists and thanked him, and then kicked the cloth shoes that had opened his mouth and walked forward slowly, and the old man called Hanako walked very slowly, and when he walked to the ministry, it was already almost the time of the unitary, and it was close to the evening when the officials of the ministry were on duty. Like the Shuntianfu officials, the errand officer who began to be on duty in the Ministry of Officials refused to believe that this old man called Hanako was an official, and that old man called Hanako was helpless, so he had to take out the official seal from the Eight Grades and the documents issued to him by the Ministry of Officials, and then entered the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

"Stop." Just as the old man called Huazi was about to step into the lobby of the ministry, Ren Dinghang, the right attendant of the ministry, who happened to come back from outside, drank the old man called Huazi, Ren Dinghang covered his nose, and shouted arrogantly: "Come on, how did you do the errand?" How did you put this dirty and smelly old Hanako in? Let him in and ask for food? Beat me out with a stick! Next time, be careful with your rice bowls. ”

"Lord Ren, he is an official from the eighth grade, and he came to Beijing to report on his work." An errand officer secretly complained in his heart, and said in his heart that this old man called Huazi was so unlucky, who was not good to meet, but he met Ren Dinghang, the most difficult and snobbish in the ministry? Sure enough, when Ren Dinghang heard that the old man named Huazi was only a petty official from the eighth grade, he immediately jumped three feet high, and scolded with his fingers: "The petty official from the eighth rank also needs to go to Beijing to report on his work?" Are you stupid or stupid? Actually got into this old name Hanako? ”

"Come on, take this old man who is pretending to be an official Hanako to Shuntian Mansion, and let Shuntian Mansion Yin be severely punished!" Ren Dinghang threw down the sleeves of his robe and shouted. The unlucky officer who was scolded said in a low voice: "Lord Ren, he is indeed an official from the eighth rank who went to Beijing to report on his work, and the official documents in his hand were signed by Lord Ji Shiji himself. ”

"Signed by Jishi himself?" Ren Dinghang, who belongs to the Kangxi faction, said in his heart that since Jishi named this old man called Huazi to enter Beijing, then this guy must be a person from the Aobai faction, who was called by Jishi to enter Beijing and prepare for promotion, and I are two people! Thinking of this, Ren Dinghang started his bad heart, taking advantage of Jishi's lack of coming to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials today, and asked the old man named Huazi from Bapin to hand over the documents signed by Jishi himself, and when he unfolded it, Ren Dinghang knew that the old man called Huazi was a Han official, and his name had never been heard.

"Lord Jishi is not here today, and I also know about you, since you are derelict in your duties." Ren Dinghang stretched his voice and said in an official tone: "Then you will be reduced by two levels, from the ninth grade to the ......." Ren Dinghang really couldn't remember for a while that there was a lack of nine products, so he turned his head and shouted at a pen sticker: "Look, is there a lack of nine products?" ”

"Back to your lordship, there is a shortage from the ninth grade in the suburbs of Shengjing." The pen replied respectfully. Ren Dinghang nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Put his official file forward, and let him make up for the shortage." Fast! After opening the official defense paperwork, let him get out, so that he would not stain the floor of the lobby of our official department. ”

"Yes." The pen and paste quickly drafted the document, ready to ask Ren Dinghang to use the seal. Ren Dinghang smiled treacherously in his heart, and said in his heart Jishi, Jishi, when you find out that the cronies you want to promote have been demoted to the ninth grade, I really don't know what kind of expression you have, who told your cronies to be angry, drunk and derelict in their duties, you can't accuse me if I demote him, this dumb loss, you are determined. At this time, the old man Hanako, who had not spoken a word since he entered the Ministry of Officials, suddenly asked: "Lord Ren, dare to ask your high hall but Mr. Ren Linzeng?" Zhejiang Jinhua people, Ren Linzeng of Taifu Ren Junyi? ”

"Yes, do you know my father?" Ren Dinghang paused, agreed and asked rhetorically. The old man named Hanako was blown by the cold wind in the north and there was a hint of a smile on his old face, as if he was reminiscing, and said with a smile: "Not only do you know, that year, when I met your father, I also played a game of chess, so I was particularly impressed. ”

"Chess?" Ren Dinghang asked inexplicably: "My father is good at Go, but he is not good at chess?" ”

"I'm also a stinky flag basket, so we had a lot of fun that day, and it was just hard to separate." Recalling the past, the old man Hanako came to the spirit, and said with great interest: "At that time, we went down to the end, I only had a veteran and a soldier left, and your father only had a veteran and a phase." Logically speaking, this should be a banner, but your father, that is, your father, is competitive, and he proposed that the winner must be divided, so I said, and the chess elephant can't cross the river, how can you tell the winner? ”

"Yes, the elephant can't cross the river, how can you divide the victory and defeat?" Ren Dinghang asked suspiciously. The old man Hanako smiled and said: "Your father has a way, saying that he will let Shixiang cross the river today, and he must distinguish the winner from the loser!" I agreed, and then it was more fun, and your father walked the elephant first, and I will row the taxi; Your father walks like an elephant, and I row a soldier; Your father is an elephant again, and I am a rower; Your father is like me, and I am your father; Your father walks like me, and I am your father; Your father is like me, and I am your father; Your father is like me, and I am your father ....... ”

Speaking of this, the old man Hanako laughed, "Hahahahaha, it's so interesting, your father has always been like me, I have always been your father, do you say it's interesting?" And Ren Dinghang was puzzled when he heard it, because the words of the old man Hanako were entangled in his father, so he could only nod and say, "Yes, yes, interesting." And the other bystanders in the hall of the Ministry of Officials, most of them had already heard that there was a mystery in the words of the old man Hanako, but they were afraid of Ren Dinghang's power, so they could only lower their heads and smile bitterly.

At this time, the tip has already opened the official defense document that appointed the old man named Huazi, Ren Dinghang saw that it was getting late, and after checking that it was correct, he used the seal, handed it to the flower child and said: "Okay, take this to take office, don't drink and derelict yourself in the future, you are already the youngest official in my Qing Dynasty, and if you go down, you will be demoted to a concubine." ”

"Finally downgraded to the eighteenth level." The old man Hanako smiled bitterly in his heart, took the official defense and turned around and left. When he was about to leave the gate, the old man called Huazi turned back to Ren Dinghang and smiled: "Lord Ren, you have to remember clearly, I have always been (Shi) your father." ”

"Yes, yes." Ren Dinghang replied casually. And the officials and servants in the hall of the ministry couldn't hold back any longer, and laughed heartily, and Ren Dinghang finally woke up, and suddenly his face turned purple with anger, and he roared: "The old name is Huazi, and he dares to entertain the second-class members of the imperial court and look for death!" Come on, beat me to death! ”

"Slow!" The old man called Hanako to shout, drank a few errand officers who patted Ren Dinghang's ass and pounced on him, and said with a wicked smile: "I always told Hanako to say that I am your father, but you admit it yourself, what kind of pastime?" Although I am a sesame official from the ninth grade, I am also an official of the imperial court, and if you want to kill me, you don't mean that you will kill me. Good son, you have personally admitted that I am your father. ”

"It's always called Hanako, I'll fight with you!" Ren Dinghang was so angry that his whole body trembled, relying on his youth and strength, he rushed up and pressed down the thin and shriveled old man called Huazi is fist and kick, and the others were afraid of Ren Dinghang's official position, and no one dared to go up to persuade him. The old man Hanako laughed while rolling on the ground, "My son beat Lao Tzu, everyone, look, my son beat his father." ”

"My son hit his father." The old name Hanako is really the master of the duck's dead mouth, even if he is beaten to the point of blue nose and swollen face, he still takes advantage of the verbal advantage. And that Ren Dinghang was an official promoted by Kangxi - of course, in order to squeeze out the people who worshipped, he rode on the old man called Huazi and punched him, his hands became heavier and heavier, and he scolded: "The old man is called Huazi, today the lord killed you, and at most he will be fined half a year, and the lord can afford to resist." But before Ren Dinghang's voice fell, a few people suddenly broke in from outside the hall, and the first one entered the door and asked, "Is Lord Ji Shiji here?" Wu Yingxiong, the prince of Pingxi, asked to see him. ”

"Master Ji is not here, so he didn't come to Yamen today." Ren Dinghang replied angrily. Ren Dinghang knew that Wu Yingxiong and Kangxi did not deal with each other, so he didn't have a good voice towards Wu Yuanming, and Wu Yuanming, who had been running around for an afternoon and still found nothing, also noticed that the old man who was knocked over on the ground by Ren Dinghang was called Huazi, and asked curiously: "What's going on?" Why is there a person named Hanako in the lobby of the official department? ”

"He's not called Hanako, he's now a stable official from the Nine Pins." Ren Dinghang replied angrily, and hit the old man Huazi on the head with a hard punch, and scolded: "The surname Yao, if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you today, Lao Tzu won't be surnamed Ren!" ”

Knowing that Ji Shi was not there, Wu Yuanming, who was about to go to find other cronies to worship Ao, stopped, recalled and muttered: "The official surnamed Yao is from the Jiupin Division? At this time, Wu Yuanming saw the official appointment letter that always called Huazi to fall to the ground out of the corner of his eye, picked it up and only glanced at it - Wu Yuanming immediately rushed up like crazy, kicked Ren Dinghang, a second-rank member of the imperial court, into a somersault, and quickly helped up the official from the Jiupin stable, his lips trembled and he was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"You are the little traitor Wu Yingxiong?" The old man Hanako wiped the blood on his face, tilted his head to look at Wu Yuanming, and said with a sneer: "I'm not your father, why do you want to save me?" ”

"Godfather, please bow to the child!" Wu Yuanming turned over and knelt on his knees, and shouted respectfully. Of course, in order to avoid admitting his wrong godfather, Wu Yuanming still secretly glanced at the appointment letter from the Jiupin Division, fortunately Wu Yuanming didn't misread his name, this is always called Huazi - Yao Qisheng!

"Godfather, the child has finally found you!"