Concubine Yuan was holding a tanuki cat in her hand, and this time the cat was lazily raising its head so that Concubine Yuan could scratch its chin with her slender fingers. This cat was specially brought by Concubine Yuan when the queen heard that the emperor was playing chess with Concubine Tian and the situation was not right. In case the chess game is out of control, then let the cat pounce on the chessboard and lift the chessboard, so that the emperor will not have any bad associations because of the loss.

Of course, there are risks associated with doing so. The Emperor will surely be very angry, and perhaps everyone will be reprimanded. So until the last moment, Concubine Yuan couldn't do this.

Emperor Chongde hesitated to drop a child, his hands trembled violently, as if his entire country was on this seed. But as soon as this piece fell, Concubine Yuan's face turned white again: this move seemed to be fierce, directly aimed at Concubine Tian's chess shape, but Emperor Chongde's own chess was thinner, if Concubine Tian counterattacked, as long as one was broken, Emperor Chongde's entire dragon immediately had no possible eye position, and if it was killed, it was obvious that Concubine Tian's chess spirit was longer. In other words, as long as Concubine Tian plays that hand, the game can be over immediately.

Concubine Yuan raised her head and glanced at Queen Zhou, and put her hand behind the cat's buttocks. Empress Zhou was also full of hesitation. At this time, Concubine Tian raised her head, winked at them, and shook her head gently. Concubine Yuan raised her hand again and gently stroked the tanuki cat's forehead, and the tanuki cat snorted comfortably.

Concubine Tian picked up a chess piece from the chess basket, seemed to hesitate, and after a while, she dropped a piece, which was not broken, but self-made up in one step. This step is also appropriate in chess theory, and there is a saying in the "Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Chess" that "it is better to make up for yourself than to force it without doing anything". Although it is possible to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, Tian Fei's chess advantage is very obvious at this time, and making up for her own hand is also a means of winning smoothly.

Seeing that Concubine Tian made up a hand, Emperor Chongde was relieved, in fact, he already knew that if his hand was broken by Concubine Tian before he fell and took a son, the whole chess game would collapse immediately, but his big dragon just couldn't see the second eye, so he could only make a move like this first, to see if he could deceive a first move, so that he would still have the opportunity to make a robbery eye. Now that Concubine Tian has retreated, Emperor Chongde hurriedly put this robbery eye out. Concubine Tian followed and responded, and the two sides started a robbery.

Emperor Chongde did not have a lot of robbing materials, but Concubine Tian's ability to find robbery was far better than that of Emperor Chongde, just when Emperor Chongde used up his last robbery material, and also determined that Concubine Tian did not have any more robbery materials in his hands, Concubine Tian took another hand in the big dragon that he abandoned at the beginning.

Strictly speaking, this move is not a robbery at all, because even if you ignore it, you won't have two eyes to let Concubine Tian play there again. But the emperor didn't dare to despise this hand, because if this hand was not ignored, although this dead chess piece could not be resurrected, Concubine Tian had the means to stir up several chess pieces into a mess and kill them. If the emperor is defeated by this random killing, then he will hardly have a few pieces left on the chessboard.

But chess has come to this point, but there are no more options. Emperor Chongde Luozi revitalized the dragon, and Concubine Tian then broke another chess piece of Emperor Chongde with Luozi, and then there was a scuffle, four or five pieces of chess broke each other and killed together. In the end, Emperor Chongde was very lucky, not only completely killed Concubine Tian's original abandoned son, but also cut off a fourteen-child tail from another big dragon that was twisted into Concubine Tian. Now looking at the plate, Emperor Chongde is more than ten sons ahead. At this time, there were only a few petty officials left on the chessboard, and the oldest was only two. There's no place to win or lose. Concubine Tian slowly stood up, pouted with disappointment on her face, and said, "Your Majesty will win this game." Originally, I would have won a lot, if it weren't for Your Majesty's good luck......"

won this game by luck, but Emperor Chongde's mood was very good. Especially when he heard Concubine Tian say in a strange tone that he was lucky, his mood was even better. Now he really needs some good luck.

"Actually, the main thing in this game of chess is that you are going badly by yourself, concubine." Emperor Chongde said with a smile, "The ancients said, 'Don't make trouble when you win chess.'" Aifei, even if you let go of my big dragon in an ordinary way, it is estimated that in the end, it will be Aifei who has won more. As a result, Concubine Ai was insatiable and wanted to provoke a chaotic war, but it gave me a chance. ”

"Isn't that it?" Concubine Tian still looked unwilling.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this game of chess is very similar to the current situation." Queen Zhou on the side suddenly said, "That Zhang Bingzhong, the emperor originally spared him for his capital crime and gave him an official position." He's a winner. But he is insatiable and wants to make trouble, which is to ruin his victory. Oh, Your Majesty, the concubine is guilty, but she talked about political affairs. ”

According to the rules, the harem is not allowed to talk about political affairs. However, Emperor Chongde felt that what Zhou Hou said was very reasonable. Moreover, there was nothing great in this, so he smiled and said, "Queen, you are just too serious." This can also be regarded as a harem interference, so what is Empress Changsun congratulating Emperor Taizong because of Wei Zheng's offense against Yan Jin? Besides, what you said is also right, well, you have a bit of the style of the eldest grandson queen. ”

Empress Changsun was the empress of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and was regarded as a role model for virtuous concubines since ancient times. At this time, the emperor compared Empress Zhou to Empress Changsun, which was naturally also a compliment.

When Empress Zhou heard this, she bent down and said, "What Your Majesty said, how dare you be a concubine." ”

Emperor Chongde was about to say something more, but saw Wang Dehua quietly looking outside the door. Then he said: "Wang Banban, is there anything wrong?" ”

Wang Dehua walked in, first kowtowed to the emperor, empress and concubines, and then stood up, but did not speak.

Emperor Chongde knew that something must have happened, so he said: "Wang Dehua, you go back to the Qianqing Palace with me." ”

The queen and Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan sent off the emperor together. When Emperor Chongde left the Chengqian Palace, he asked, "Wang Banban, what happened?" ”

"Your Majesty." Wang Chengen said, "Yesterday, the emperor asked the slave maid to see the Marquis of Wuqing......"

Emperor Chongde listened as he walked. When he heard that Wu Qinghou actually took all the things at home to sell on the street, and said something about "destroying the family and relieving the difficulties", the good mood he had just now was completely gone. After Wang Dehua finished speaking, the two had already entered the Qianqing Palace. Emperor Chongde asked sharply with a calm face: "Wang Dehua, how did you become the eunuch of the Admiral of Dongchang!" ”

Wang Dehua hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Emperor Chongde said: "Back then, Li Jinzhong was the factory governor, which was too strict. That's not true, but that doesn't mean you can be a good gentleman! This Li Guorui did this, this is a deliberate foreign appearance to leave the court, and it is a resentment against me! I let you be in charge of the East Factory, did I let you be a puppet? ”

Wang Dehua hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Marquis Wu Qing's approach is indeed rude, but to deal with him, we have to consider the Empress Dowager Cisheng." The slave didn't dare to be self-dedicated, so she came to tell the emperor. ”

Hearing "Empress Dowager Cisheng", the emperor also froze. He knew that if it weren't for the Empress Dowager Cisheng's insistence and fighting for the country, his father was afraid that he would not be able to be the emperor at all. Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cisheng is kind to her own lineage. Li Guorui is the younger generation of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, and it is also appropriate for Wang Dehua to have such concerns. It's just that now, the matter of borrowing money from Xungui has just begun, how can you stop just because they make a fuss?

"If you don't punish one or two severely, I won't be able to do anything!" Chongdehuang said angrily, "Wang Dehua, when Li Jinzhong was the head of this factory, did anyone dare to do this?!" ”

Wang Dehua kowtowed again and said, "The slave will go and arrest them." ”

"Go! Just go! Be sure to get him to get the money out! Emperor Chongde said angrily.

……

Xiangyang, the superintendent is in charge.

Since Yang Fei replaced Xiong Shanhuo and lived in this superintendent, the atmosphere here has been different from the past. After Yang Fei took office, he was not allowed to stay here, and there was no sound of selling, which was particularly clean. Today is the day when Yang Fei summoned the generals to discuss how to exterminate Zhang Bingzhong, and the streets have been cleaned since the night before and pedestrians have been cut off. All the shops in the vicinity were closed, and the residents of the neighborhood were confined to their homes and could not come out.

At this time, the sun had just risen, and the mist in Xiangyang City had not completely dispersed. But outside the gate, there were already officers and soldiers with various weapons in their hands, and the swords and guns in their hands glittered with cold light under the light of the rising sun.

At the entrance of the Yuan, there are two high flagpoles, each holding an apricot yellow flag, one side of which reads "Dongge University Scholar", and the other side reads "Governor of the Three Armies". In addition, there are two lines of flags erected outside the gate, each row is five, relatively even, the pole is one foot high and three feet, the flag is seven feet, all are flame-shaped apricot yellow flag edges, and the flag center is according to the color of the five directions. A flying tiger is embroidered in the center of each flag, and the color is prescribed according to the so-called principle of the five elements, for example, the flag representing the east is cyan, while the flying tiger in the middle is embroidered red, and the red flag yellow flying tiger representing the south, and so on. These ten flags are called the Flying Tiger Flag, which is the door flag of the superintendent. This street has been cut off from the common people, and even the horses of civil and military officials have to stop ten feet away from the gate.

From the gate to the lobby, it is a deep two-entry compound, and a two-door in the middle. Outside the second gate stood eight guards; From the second gate to the bottom of the lobby steps, there are also two lines of guards standing on both sides of the wide road. There are many military flags of different colors and forms planted in the courtyard of the two entrances, embroidered with various patterns according to the five elements and the myth of the twenty-eight houses. Under the stone steps outside the second gate, next to a stone lion on the left, there is a huge Chinese army seat made of dark green satin, inlaid with white silk flame-shaped edges; The apricot yellow tassel on the flagpole is five feet long, with a tasseled head and a beaded ornament; A silver spear is exposed on the tassel. The center of Daxu is embroidered with red Taiji diagram, surrounded by eight trigrams, and the outside is the stars such as fighting, bulls, houses, and hearts. The lobby is called White Tiger Hall, and two seven-foot-long leopard tail flags are erected under the steps, and the head of the flagpole is a sharp blade. This is a sign of the military aircraft land. This kind of flag was erected outside the door, and officials of all sizes were not allowed to enter without permission unless there was an order from the commander, and violators were punished. Nowadays, it has become a common situation that the commander's orders are not effective, and military discipline is lax. Therefore, Yang Fei specially instructed his subordinates to make serious arrangements today to show the prestige of the superintendent and auxiliary ministers, so that the civilian officials and military generals who were summoned felt that this atmosphere was very different from when Xiong Shanhuo was in office, and they knew what to fear.