The report was submitted, but it took nearly three months to wait for the following.

As Wang Qianli expected, the emperor did not approve it, but rewarded him with a bunch of nourishing medicines, and ordered Enjun, who had just been transferred back to Beijing from Xinjiang, not to go to Rehe for an audience, but to come directly to Miyun to help with military affairs.

On the second day after Enjun rushed from the capital to Miyun non-stop, the emperor issued a decree to order Enjun to be the deputy commander of the Han Army's Zhengbai Banner, and ordered Enjun's brother, the deputy capital of Zhenghuang Banner Manchuria, and Shangshu Miansen of the Ministry of Industry, as the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!

What is even more incredible is that Kuang Yuan did not return to Rehe after announcing the decree, but claimed that he had asked the emperor for leave and returned directly to the capital from Miyun. He consulted the vacant servants of the Ministry of Works, and Du Han, the attendant of the Ministry of Works, who was also walking on the Minister of Military Aircraft, signed it.

Enjun, who had been on the road almost all in the past year, felt very strange, and as soon as he sent Kuang Yuan away, he returned to Han Xiufeng's house to "recuperate", and took the door to look at Han Xiufeng, who was lying on a rattan chair and taking a nap, and asked: "Fourth master, the emperor has no time to summon me to see me, why is it that at this time, Quasi Kuangyuan is on vacation, and Quasi Kuangyuan is returning to Beijing?" ”

Han Xiufeng opened his eyes, sat up, and beckoned him to sit, while reminding: "Xincheng, you are already the deputy commander of the official residence, but you can't be the same as before!" ”

"It's an outsider here."

"Not without outsiders."

"Okay, okay, I'll call you sir."

"I'm recuperating, now you are an adult, I'll let Qianli accompany you to the government office later, take a look at the official documents and money and food books of these days, and go to say hello to Wu Tingdong by the way. If it weren't for the fact that you had traveled tens of thousands of miles all the way, I would have planned to ask Wang Hedong to accompany you to the camps. ”

"My lord, aren't you fine, why do you want to sue for illness!"

Han Xiufeng didn't answer his question, but shook the fan while saying worriedly: "Ruilin, you should remember, because of the lack of prevention and blockage, the scholar was dismissed, and it stands to reason that he couldn't turn over for a while, but a few days ago, the emperor actually ordered him to handle the auspicious land project with the four-grade top belt." ”

Eun Jun was taken aback, and after a long pause, he asked in a low voice: "Fourth master, do you mean that the emperor's dragon body ......?"

"I don't know if the emperor's dragon body owes An, anyway, I not only went to the sick fold, but also asked for an fold on the head two times in three days, and even begged for an audience more than once, but those folds on it were all like stones sinking into the sea, let alone the audience."

"Isn't the big head on an errand by the emperor's side?"

"I haven't seen him in months, not only haven't I seen him, but I haven't even heard from him."

"What about Ronglu and Yongxiang?"

"The same is true."

Thinking that the brother who stayed in the capital would not be promoted for no reason, thinking that the emperor would not let Kuang Yuan return to Beijing for no reason, and then thinking of the emperor who had never been very concerned about the affairs of the auspicious land in ten thousand years, he actually ordered the scholar Ruilin of the University to be in charge of the auspicious land project with the four-grade top belt, and Eunjun realized that the situation on the side of the Rehe Palace was not very good.

He didn't know what to say, Han Xiufeng continued: "In Jingli, you should have seen your eldest brother, and your eldest brother should have told you about some of the things that happened in Rehe and Jingli in the past six months. If I hadn't been in a dilemma and struggling, I wouldn't have sued for illness. ”

Enjun knows very well Han Xiufeng's current situation, although only more than 3,000 soldiers were killed in the battle between the imperial court and the foreigners at Bali Bridge last year, if those who did not return to the camp after fleeing are counted, the officers and soldiers who really died in the battle may only be one or two thousand, and the loss is really not much, but the last bit of spirit of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian horse teams has been lost.

In addition, as the foreigners invaded the capital, the more and more fierce the bandits, from Anhui, Henan, Shandong to Zhili, large and small hundreds, pick up the knife and gun is the bandit, put down the knife and gun is the ordinary people, it is difficult to screen, and most of them can ride horses, come and go like the wind, more difficult to deal with than long hair.

Seng Lingqin finally gathered some horse teams, so he was ordered to go out to suppress them, from Zhili to Shandong and even Henan, and there were only 8,000 soldiers under Shengbao in the Gyeonggi area, more than 4,000 Eight Banners and Mongolian horse teams stationed at Gubeikou, and nearly 3,000 soldiers stationed in Miyun. And in the eyes of everyone, the only ones who can really fight among these soldiers and horses are the officers and soldiers stationed in Miyun, to be exact, only the more than 400 soldiers of the river camp.

The emperor and the princes and ministers such as Prince Zheng, Prince Yi and Su Shun who accompanied him used to count on the river camp to intercept the foreigners, but now they are counting on the river camp to deter the capital in case there is a change in the capital.

Thinking of this, Eunjun suddenly regretted that he shouldn't have rushed back.

Now, Han Xiufeng didn't want to hide it from him, and continued: "I originally planned to hand over the military power, and then resign and return to my hometown." As a result, I don't know if the Rehe side didn't come up with a candidate to replace me in Miyun for a while, or whether it was going to contain the newly established Prime Minister's Yamen through me, but I didn't agree anyway, so I just dragged it out until you returned to Beijing. ”

"Through you to contain the Prime Minister's Yamen?"

"Xincheng, do you really don't know or don't know?"

"Fourth master, I really don't know!"

"Let's put it this way, the people who are now on errand in the Prime Minister's Yamen are all from our Houyi Hall. Wan Shixuan and Wang Naizeng became the general office Zhang Jing, Temulun and Yun Qijun became the assistant Zhang Jing, and the previous translators and those people sent out before all walked on Zhang Jing. ”

Eun Jun reacted, and couldn't help but ask with a bitter face: "Su Shun must think that as long as the fourth master is here, the newly established Prime Minister's Yamen will not be able to make much trouble?" ”

"To be precise, I should feel that with you and me, the newly established Prime Minister's Yamen can't make much of a storm."

"Me?" Book Bar

"What do you think you're going to do? What do you think your eldest brother can do as the Minister of the Interior? Han Xiufeng took a deep breath and continued: "Bochuan is not idle, he has joined forces with Prince Gong several times to say that the foreigners promised to sell guns and even gunboats to us, and asked me to set up a Shenji battalion, and even asked me to be transferred back to Beijing to prepare." ”

"Has the emperor given permission?"

"Only half of them were allowed to prepare for the establishment of the Shenji Battalion, not only did they not allow me to return to Beijing to prepare for it, but they were not even allowed to transfer personnel from the river camp."

Eunjun muttered: "Lord Wen didn't have much friendship with Prince Gong before, how can he get so close to Prince Gong now!" ”

"People have shared hardships, not to mention for the sake of the country, everything they are doing is not inappropriate."

"Fourth master, according to what you say, my eldest brother and Prince Gong have also shared hardships?"

"This is natural, let's put it this way, the civil and military officials who stayed in the capital on some major matters can be called one heart. Su Shun should be aware of it, otherwise they will never let Kuang Yuan return to Beijing. ”

"Prince Zheng, Prince Yi and Su Shun, are they afraid?"

"It's not so exaggerated, after all, Prince Gong and they are just ordered to handle the affairs of the resettlement, and other government orders are still from the Military Aircraft Department, and they are still from Rehe. It's just that their words are not as good as before, and the civil and military officials who swallowed their anger before are not as afraid of them as before. ”

While they were talking, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves outside.

As soon as the two turned around, they saw Wang Qianli hurriedly walking in with the auspicious deeds that should have been on duty in Rehe. Looking at the people's clothes worn by Ji Xiang, Han Xiufeng realized that something was wrong and stood up suddenly.

"Fourth master, the emperor...... The emperor is dead! ”

"What?"

"The emperor has died!" Ji Xiang didn't care about saluting Enjun, so he said eagerly: "When I went out of Beijing last year, I Ama explained, if you encounter a big event, don't worry about anything, hurry up and report to you." As soon as I heard the news, I quickly found two horses and came to you to report it! ”

Han Xiufeng had already guessed that the emperor's dragon body was not safe, but he never expected the emperor to die like this, so he grabbed his arm and asked, "When did it happen?" ”

"Yesterday morning!"

Ji Xiang wiped a handful of sweat and panted and said: "I heard the father-in-law on duty in the inner court say that the emperor was in much better spirits a few days ago, not only summoned the little prince to serve with him, not only reviewed more than a dozen excerpts, but also preached 'Ruyizhou flowers sing as usual' after being busy;

The emperor's dragon body is getting better, and the big guys are very happy, but I didn't expect that the morning before, the emperor's dragon body was uncomfortable again, so I used some food and didn't go to Ruyizhou to listen to the play again. At night, he fainted, and heard that he didn't wake up until three o'clock in the morning, and summoned Zongrenfu Zongling, Zongzheng, the former minister, and the minister of military aircraft overnight, and wrote Zhu Yu, and established the emperor's eldest son as the crown prince. ”

"And then?" Han Xiufeng asked reluctantly.

"Tossed until dawn, the emperor wanted to drink sugar water to simmer bird's nest, but before he could send it over, the emperor ...... It's already dead! ”

"I know, you go back first, the more you can't leave your post without permission."

"Fourth Master ......"

Eun Jun could understand Han Xiufeng's mood at this moment, and hurriedly said, "Don't rub it off, go back quickly!" ”

"Huh!"

As soon as Jixiang's front foot left, Wang Qianli said eagerly: "Fourth master, what should I do now?" ”

Han Xiufeng sat on the rattan chair as if the three souls and six spirits had been suddenly withdrawn, and said weakly: "Wait for the edict, as soon as the edict arrives, it will be declared, and it should be dressed in plain clothes." ”

"Fourth Master, I mean what should we do in the future?" Wang Qianli glanced back at Enjun and said cautiously: "The emperor ordered Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Jingshou, Sushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying to be the ministers who assisted the crown prince...... It's so unconscionable. ”

"If you want to do so much, let's get ready."

"The subordinate obeys."

Wang Qianli left, and Eunjun also sat down.

Just stared at Han Xiufeng for a long time, and seeing that Han Xiufeng's eyes were dull, he didn't speak for a long time, and couldn't help but remind: "Fourth master, fourth master, when the mourners arrive, are you on the road, please go to Rehe?" ”

Han Xiufeng relieved himself and shook his head listlessly: "The emperor has died, what are you going to do in Rehe?" ”