When Su Shun and other eight ministers negotiated with the empress dowager of the two palaces, Guo Xing'a was not idle, he wanted to arrange his own way back after the Xinyou coup. Although he made up his mind not to mix anything and return to his hometown in the northeast to become a warlord in the future, Guo Xing'a did not relax his snooping on other people's secrets. He has to see the situation clearly, figure out who is who, he can not mix, but he can't help but be vigilant.

During Xianfeng's critical illness, Yixin's letter made Guo Xinga see something beyond the letters. Yi Xin was able to obtain the information that Xianfeng was critically ill in a very short period of time under the condition that Sushun strictly blocked the news, and knew Xianfeng's condition very well, which is very revealing. Because Xianfeng was sick in public on the day of Wanshou Day, it was easy to know the news of Xianfeng's illness. However, it is not easy to learn about Xianfeng's specific condition, and there must be someone among the imperial doctors around Xianfeng who is Yixin's hardcore, or has a close relationship with Yixin's hardcore. But Su Shun blocked the entire Chengde at that time, how did this person who could have a relationship with the imperial doctor send the news out? And it can be sent to Beijing at an astonishing speed.

The Miscellaneous Affairs Department is now very large, and after having clues, I will investigate carefully, and soon find Yi Xin's secret stake - Cao Yuying, a close friend of the imperial medical officer Luan Tai. Cao Yuying, the word Ziyu, the number Zhuoru, Jiangyin Zhouzhuang people. Daoguang showed talent for ten years, and was later elected as a tribute, and served in the military department with seven products. Daoguang was raised in 23 years, and Xianfeng was promoted by the military aircraft Zhang Jing in five years, and successively served as Wailang, Langzhong, and Honglu Temple Shaoqing. Because he has worked in the military aircraft department for a long time, he has the reputation of "being in charge of the affairs of the inside and knowing the politics of the Quartet outside", and Su Shun has also tried his best to win him over, but he is Yixin's hardcore, and he is the kind that is very hidden.

Cao Yuying and Luan Tai have been friends for many years, and with their friendship, he can definitely ask about Xianfeng's condition from Luan Tai's mouth. Don't look at Cao Yuying's official size, but the position is important. He is the chief Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department, which is the number one among the legendary small military aircraft. During Xianfeng's serious illness, the big military planes were all gathered in the palace, and he became the de facto head of the military aircraft department, and he could use some small privileges of the military aircraft department at will, such as sending emergency letters. No one dares to detain or inquire about the official affairs and letters of the Military Aircraft Department. That's it, Yixin's critical information is unimpeded in Sushun's channel.

Although Cao Yuying is not a small fish, Guo Xing'a still feels dissatisfied, he always feels that there is still a big fish that has not been found. However, the miscellaneous affairs department mobilized capable forces to check several times, but there was still no new gain, and Yixin's arrangement seemed to be nothing more. Guo Xing'a always felt that there were still people who had not been found, but there were no clues and he couldn't find out, so he had to give up. However, seven or eight days later, the information sent by the downline of an outline officer of the miscellaneous affairs department almost scared Guo Xing'a to the ground.

The content of this information was heard by this eighteenth-line officer when he was serving a family banquet, and the person who told the secret was Wang Yiyun of Alcohol County. Zou Degui and the others scoffed at the truth of this information, because it was too outrageous, and regardless of whether its content was true or not, it was absolutely impossible for Yi Xun to tell such a secret in a crowded place. However, after learning the details, Guo Xing'a was a little suspicious. He didn't know much about this history, but he had some impressions of the people and things involved in the secrets he confided.

Which peripheral personnel of the eighteenth line is a subordinate of the family of Prince Mianyu of the fifth master, he served a light meal that only the close branch clan participated, and listened to Yiyun tell a big secret. Yi Xun is not only the brother-in-law of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, but also the brother-in-law of the Queen Mother of the West. In the ninth year of Xianfeng, when she was still the sister of the Empress Dowager of the West who was still Concubine Yi, she was ordered to marry Yixun, and she was married to the king of Alcohol County, and gave birth to a daughter in March of the following year, Xianfeng ten years in August, when the British and French forces approached Beijing, the prince and his wife fled with Emperor Xianfeng to Chengde Summer Resort.

In order to avoid the power of the two palaces from being too inflated, the eight ministers of Gu Ming strictly used the "ancestral etiquette law" to hold the queen mother hostage, and the queen mother of the two palaces naturally could not summon the foreign ministers into the palace, even a little uncle like Yiyun could not be summoned at will. Because in terms of etiquette, uncles and sisters-in-law should avoid suspicion, not to mention that the Queen Mother is still Yiyun's widowed sister-in-law, of course, she can't be summoned at will. But Yixun's Fujin is the sister of the Empress Dowager of the West, and when the sisters meet and chat, no one can raise any objections. What's more, my sister has just died of her husband and is in grief, so my sister should go to persuade and comfort from time to time. Therefore, the alcohol king Fujin can often enter the palace to comfort the queen mother of the two palaces. After seeing a lot, naturally chatting a lot, so King Fujin brought back amazing news from the palace.

According to Yi Xun, when the empress dowager of the two palaces once told Su Shun and other eight people to the alcohol king Fujin, she often lamented that the first emperor's entrustment was ineffective. The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces can casually say how the eight people of Sushun are ungentlemanly and domineering, and the Queen Mother of the West can't help crying when she talks about the emotion, and says: "The eight of them bully our orphans and widows like this, is there no one in our family who can come out to uphold justice?" ”

Gu Xunyun: "If the king is worried, he will be humiliated, and if the king is humiliated, the minister will die", and now the queen mother who is in the "throne" actually said such a thing with tears in her eyes, and the alcohol king Fujin is bound to have a clear expression of the "loyalty" of his wife, not to mention that one of the queen mothers of the two palaces is his own sister? So, on behalf of her husband, King Fujin said: "There is the seventh master here, and the two queen mothers can rest assured." As soon as the Empress Dowager heard this, she immediately said, "Then summon the Seventh Master tomorrow morning."

Guo Xing'a feels that this part is definitely not all fake, among which the Queen Mother Xi's crying is very real, unlike most strong women, the Queen Mother West is a very crying person. Some people say that Liu Bei's rivers and mountains were cried during the Three Kingdoms, but in fact, the rivers and mountains of the Western Empress Dowager were also cried. Listening to politics is a taboo against the ancestral system, and the reason why it can be successfully implemented is closely related to the Empress Dowager's good at "sensationalism". In fact, throughout the life of the Empress Dowager of the West, whenever she was at a relative disadvantage in the political struggle, she almost had to stage a crying "tragic drama", this time when she got rid of Gu Ming's eight ministers, the same was true when she attacked King Gong during the Tongzhi period, and even more so when she launched the "Wuxu Coup" during the Guangxu period and imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor. On the contrary, when she was in a relative advantage in the struggle, it must have been a thunderous "Qiangang dictatorship" -- 23 years later, in the ninth year of Guangxu (1884), the politically fledgling Empress Dowager Xi, in order to completely get rid of the constraints of King Gong and monopolize power, actually launched the "Jiashen Coup" with lightning speed, and dismissed all the military ministers headed by King Gong, which not only made King Gong completely leave the center of power, but also completely lost the power of the Empress Dowager of the West. At that time, she was by no means a "teary-eyed woman". As for the later Wuxu year (1898), when she launched a coup d'état again to imprison Emperor Guangxu, so she cried bitterly in the court, because at that time, Guangxu had nominally been a pro-judge for several years, as the empress dowager who had already withdrawn from the curtain and returned to the government and retreated to the deep palace, she wanted to openly regain imperial power and train the government, and she was naturally at an absolute disadvantage in the face of the ancestral family law, so she "had to cry" to show that the reason why she did this was because the Guangxu Emperor was "not angry" and "not filial", and he had been raised and taught for many years, and he was "out of last resort" Only then did he come to the court again to train the government.

Although the description of the Empress Dowager of the West has a truth that outsiders can't see, the other parts are a bit illogical. The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces had just negotiated the conditions with the Eight Ministers, so why did she immediately turn the muzzle of the gun and find someone to deal with the Eight Ministers. And even if the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces wants to seize power in an all-round way, and solve the eight ministers who hindered them in one fell swoop, they have to find a reliable person. Wang Yiyun, who is just twenty-one years old, even if he is squeezed into bone meal, there are a few catties and taels, why should he fight against the eight ministers who are in the sky. The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces is definitely taking the wrong medicine when she finds such a foreign aid.

I don't know the depth of Yi Xun is really ready to accept the summons, but it is not so easy for the two palaces to summon the alcohol king. According to Yi Xun, when he came to the palace gate the next day, Su Shun was waiting for him at the palace gate, and asked him what he was going to do. He said: "The Queen Mother summons. Su Shun smiled and said, "How can there be such a thing? You must be mistaken, Seventh, let's go back quickly." Su Shun said such an arrogant and simple sentence, but Yi Xun didn't know how to deal with it, just grinding there and not leaving. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager of the West expected that he would not be able to deal with Su Shun, so she sent a eunuch to the "Chuan Yi Decree" of the Eight Classics: the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces passed on the Seventh Master. Su Shun didn't dare to openly "disobey the will", so he had no choice but to let him in.

This paragraph is the routine of storytelling and romance, Su Shun is a Zaifu, and he is not a summer resort to watch the gate, where is the time to go to block Yixun. If Su Shun really wanted to isolate Yiyun from the two palaces, he would not make it difficult at the palace gate, and he would have been able to bring Yiyun's whole family to Beijing with one will. Where did he spend such a trick and foot, and in the end, he let Yiyun succeed, but he became a disappointed look.

The situation of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces when they met made Yi Xun say a fascinating feeling, and even he himself was choreographed into it. According to Yi Xun, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces retold the words she said to King Fujin yesterday with great emotion, meaning that she wanted this "Seventh Master" to have an idea of what to do. Yi Xun admitted that he didn't have the ability to solve the eight ministers, so this was actually the empress dowager of the two palaces squeezing him, because of course he didn't know what to do, so he had to say an idea that was not an idea for him: "This thing can't be done without King Gong." However, what the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces wanted was exactly what he said, so she immediately ordered him to return to Beijing immediately to summon King Gong to the Hajj, and Yi Xun came out immediately after receiving the decree.

Yi Xun said that he was worried that the eight ministers would be too domineering and make unfavorable moves to the two palaces, so he deliberately revealed the meaning of the two palaces to everyone, hoping that the princes of the various clans could protect the queen mother of the two palaces when he returned to Beijing. At the same time, he also revealed a top secret to everyone, An Dehai, the personal eunuch of the Empress Dowager of the West, had secretly sneaked back to Beijing to report to Yixin with the assistance of the imperial guard Ronglu, and he was just a second insurance.

Guo Xing'a began to hesitate, these things that Yi Xun said were similar to the historical records that Guo Xing'a knew. But there are too many unreasonable places, and Guo Xinga really can't see the truth behind these clouds.