Qi Ning had long known that Longtai would definitely ask about this, and he had already thought about how to answer, and said with a respectful look: "Your Majesty, in fact, I want to explain this matter to you." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Speak quickly, speak quickly." Long Tai was obviously very interested in this: "I have fought with you, your martial arts are not better than me, how long has it been, you have learned such a powerful swordsmanship, I look at it is not much worse than Master Xiang." ”

Qi Ning said with a smile: "The emperor may not believe it, but in the middle of the night, a mysterious person came to my house and taught me these swordsmanship. ”

"And this kind of weirdness?" Long Tai was stunned and said strangely: "Who is that mysterious person?" ”

Qi Ning shook his head and said: "I really don't know, I asked him, and he didn't tell me, it's an old man." ”

"Old man......?" Long Tai thought for a while, and then smiled: "Those guards in your Jinyi Marquis Mansion are not vegetarians, that person can quietly run to your house without being discovered, his martial arts are naturally extremely high, he teaches you swordsmanship, naturally he has no ill will towards you, he should be a master of my Chu country." Then he asked, "Is he still here these days?" I would like to see what this master is like. ”

"Your Majesty, he won't even tell me his name, where do you dare to enter the palace to see the emperor." Qi Ning said: "But after that person taught me swordsmanship, he never appeared again, and I don't know his whereabouts." ”

Long Tai bowed slightly, suddenly thought of something, and said, "I am really confused, I almost forgot to get down to business." I summoned you to the palace because I have something to ask you. He threw a fold on the table in front of Qi Ning and said, "You can take a look at this fold first." ”

Qi Ning picked it up with both hands, swept it, frowned, and asked, "Your Majesty, is this the excerpt of Xichuan Thorn Shi Wei Shutong?" ”

"Not bad." Longtai said: "Wei Shutong's excerpt is a few days later than Li Hongxin's, and the meaning of the excerpt is not much different. After a pause, he handed over another excerpt from the shore, "This is the excerpt sent by Li Hongxin last time, you take a closer look at the difference between these two folds." ”

Qi Ning looked at the two excerpts carefully at the moment, and then raised his head and said: "On Li Hongxin's excerpt, it was reported that Heiyan Cave killed Danba County Ling Bai Tangling and several officials, but Wei Shutong's excerpt said that those officials died in Heiyanling, which seems to have the same meaning, but there is a big problem in the middle. ”

"Not bad." Long Tai smiled faintly: "Wei Shutong only said that the official messenger died in Heiyanling, but he did not say that it was killed by the people in the Black Rock Cave, and Li Hongxin's excerpt directly pointed out that Bai Tangling had also been killed in Mingdanba County, but Wei Shutong's excerpt only said that the official messenger died in Heiyanling, but did not say that Bai Tangling was also among the dead. ”

Qi Ning frowned and said: "Your Majesty, Wei Shutong is a little unclear about this excerpt, he is a feudal official appointed by the imperial court to Xichuan, it stands to reason that the excerpt should be clearer than Li Hongxin, but after reading this excerpt, it makes people feel confused." ”

Long Tai smiled faintly: "You haven't seen many excerpts, so naturally you don't understand the key to this." ”

"Please also ask the emperor for advice!"

"You feel that Wei Shutong's excerpt is a little vague, but in fact, this is what Wei Shutong wants to express to the imperial court." Longtai said: "What he said is not in the excerpt, but outside the excerpt." ”

Qi Ning immediately understood, and said: "The emperor is saying that the content in this excerpt is not what Wei Shutong wants to play to the imperial court, he just wants to use this excerpt to let the imperial court see that there is another mystery in it?" He frowned, "But why did he do this?" He is the history of Xichuan Thorn, if he has something to say to the court, why should he be vague, and he has to guess what the emperor means? ”

Long Tai also frowned and said, "I have seen this excerpt, and after thinking about it, there are only two possibilities. First, Wei Shutong was worried that this excerpt would be seen by others, so he didn't dare to say what he wanted to say clearly, so he could only vaguely let me understand that he had something unspeakable. Another possibility is that Wei Shutong deliberately made his words vague and left a way out for himself. ”

"Back?"

"Maybe there is something else going on in Xichuan, Wei Shutong is worried that the imperial court will find out other things, so he takes precautions and plans to clear up the involvement first." Long Tai sneered: "The first emperor sent him to Xichuan back then, just to let him govern one side well and become the eyes and tongue of the imperial court in Xichuan. ”

"Your Majesty, forgive me for being stupid, the emperor said that Wei Shutong may also be worried that others will see the content of the excerpt and dare not tell the truth, so I don't know two points, first, who is Wei Shutong worried about, and second, what will he dare to tell the truth?" Qi Ning's expression became serious, "If even the dignified Xichuan Assassin has concerns about this Black Rock Cave incident and does not dare to say it clearly, then there must be something extraordinary behind this matter." ”

Long Tai leaned forward and said in a low voice: "Recently, Xichuan has been happening one after another, don't you think it's very strange?" ”

"What the emperor said is extremely true." Qi Ning also said softly.

Long Tai thought for a while, and then said: "Last time, I was in a hurry to save people, and I didn't have time to ask you more, the last time you were held hostage by Swing Yi and left, Ximen Wuxian sent people from the Shenhou Mansion to Xichuan, and has begun to investigate the Black Lotus Holy Sect, this time the Black Rock Cave rebellion, King Huainan means that the Black Rock Cave and the Black Lotus Holy Sect are inseparable, just to use a reason to dispatch troops to exterminate the Black Lotus Holy Sect together." ”

"King Huainan seems to have always been very enthusiastic about exterminating the Black Lotus Holy Sect." Qi Ning said: "What does Zhongyi Marquis mean? ”

"Sima Lan has always said that the evidence must be conclusive, then the Nine Creek Poison King broke into the Shenhou Mansion, he has nothing to say, the Black Lotus Holy Sect intends to rebel, and the imperial court will naturally not sit idly by." Long Tai said: "Lu Xiao has already begun to formulate a plan to encircle and suppress the nest of the Black Lotus Holy Sect in the Ministry of War, but it is now in the depths of winter, the terrain of Xichuan is dangerous, and the nest of the Black Lotus Holy Sect is in the middle of the mountains, so even if you want to fight, you have to wait until after the beginning of spring." ”

Qi Ning bowed slightly, and said softly: "However, Swing Yi claims that the epidemic poison in the capital has nothing to do with him. ”

"So the court still gave them time." Long Tai said: "Since the Black Lotus Holy Sect is a force in the rivers and lakes, I will also tell them about the rules of the rivers and lakes, the people of the Shenhou Mansion will go to the Black Lotus Holy Sect and ask them to hand over the swing easy, if the swing is easy to bind himself into the capital to ask for guilt, the Black Lotus Saint Sect can also find and hand over the real culprit who spread the epidemic poison in the capital, and the imperial court may be merciful to their subordinates, otherwise...... Even if the epidemic has nothing to do with them, but they do not obey the orders of the imperial court, it is equivalent to rebellion. ”

Qi Ning said: "The emperor is wise. Bow first and then soldier, but also show the emperor's royal bearing. After a pause, he said, "However, the Black Lotus Holy Sect is unruly and may not cooperate with the imperial court." ”

"Then I can't complain about the court." Longtai said: "Xichuan can't be chaotic at any time, but if there is a trace of turmoil, it must be quickly extinguished." Then he smiled and said, "Yes, there are still twenty days to go before Chinese New Year's Eve, what are you going to give to Shu?" ”

Qi Ning opened his mouth, sweating on his forehead, and said, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, it should be ...... It should be something from the emperor to the ministers, right? ”

"I just ascended the throne, this is the first year of the real life, you don't want to honor me, but I want to reward you with things, it's really bold." Long Tai deliberately lowered his face and said: "That's it, I don't need your things, and you don't let me reward things, the two don't owe each other." ”

Qi Ning thought to himself that Lao Tzu hadn't seen such a slamming emperor, so he smiled and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is really a shortage of silver in the courtier's mansion recently. "I thought to myself, you still fucking owe Lao Tzu five hundred taels of gold, and it is estimated that there is no hope in this life.

"Oh?" Long Tai's eyes rolled, and he said softly: "Don't think I don't know, I ask you, what is the matter with asking for five thousand taels of silver from the Dou family?" ”

Qi Ning knew that Longtai would know about this sooner or later, and said with a smile: "Dou Lianzhong is clever and robbed, I just took some silver from him to spend it." ”

"You're not a little bold." Longtai said: "Under the banner of me, I also said that I would collect money to prepare for the sacrifice to the sky, and honestly explain, how much silver was collected in total?" ”

"Your Majesty, I really don't have much silver." Qi Ning said with a bitter face: "It doesn't add up to 10,000 taels of silver." ”

"Okay, 10,000 taels of silver is too little." Long Tai scolded with a smile: "I can't take out so much silver in my hand, I can tell you that the first two generations of Jinyi Marquis were honest and honest, you kid don't smash the sign of Jinyi Hou's incorruptible mansion." and this money shall be my reward. After a pause, he sneered: "A small household Shangshu can easily cost thousands of taels of silver, and their Dou family is really prosperous." ”

"Your Majesty, I heard that half of the business in the capital is related to the Dou family." The Qi and Dou families are incompatible, and with this opportunity, of course Qi Ning did not forget to give the Dou family eye drops, "That Dou Lianzhong is just Dou Kui's son, and he doesn't have any official status, but it is a lot of money to use silver." ”

Longtai thought for a moment before saying, "I know." He added: "Your current matter is to train me to train the Black Scale Battalion, and if you have anything, you have to come and report it to me." ”

"Yes!" Qi Ning said.

"By the way, where's that gold medal?" Long Tai said: "You haven't returned the gold medal I gave you." ”

Qi Ning thought to himself that this little emperor still thought of this stubble, the last time he went to the Shenhou Mansion, Longtai gave him a gold medal to facilitate the interrogation of Arnau, Qi Ning took the gold medal, and he never exchanged it, at this time Longtai said it, and he could only hand over the gold medal.

Out of the palace, Qi Ning did not rush back to the house, but went straight to the yamen of the military department.

Although the equipment and salaries are all allocated from the household department, the military usually negotiates directly with the military department, and receives equipment and food from the military department, rather than directly asking the household department.

The Black Scale Battalion had already begun to be built, but Qi Ning did not have a piece of equipment in his hand, nor did he have a penny of food, so he naturally had to negotiate with the military headquarters first.