Zhou Dingcheng drank a glass of wine, and then ate a large prawn slowly, with a posture of finishing his speech.

"And then, where is the show?"

Besides, I have already guessed the general routine behind it, but I still want to hear him continue.

"Well, one day, the young man came again, and he looked very anxious, saying that the princess had finally caught the emperor when he was free, and he had to meet him immediately. The emperor wanted to appoint him as a general at a certain border pass in person, not to be reinstated, but to be promoted by one level. ”

The general was overjoyed and a little scared, he hadn't seen the emperor yet, so he hurriedly followed the man in his military attache uniform. They first arrived at a mansion and waited outside the door, and then a large crowd came out, surrounded by a young and beautiful woman, and the young man who brought him introduced him, saying that she was a certain princess, the emperor's favorite daughter. Then the man went to the princess, said a few words, and pointed out what the general said, but the princess just nodded, and said nothing, and got into the car and went away with a large group of servants. ”

The young man came again, and followed the general behind the great procession, and walked some distance, until he came to the royal street, entered the palace gate, and waited outside a palace. Not long after, an inner eunuch came out to spread the word, saying that the emperor had summoned a certain general to meet him. The general was only now fully convinced, and after he entered, he prostrated on the ground, shouting three times. There was a yellow-robed man sitting on the dragon chair on the steps, he didn't know if it was the emperor, he knew the palace gate and the palace, the princess sat next to the emperor, and pointed to the general below to say something. ”

"Did the emperor speak?" Besides, he asked.

"Of course the emperor spoke, roughly saying that this general had previously killed the enemy at the border pass, Jane was in my heart, and then said that he was appointed as the chief military officer of Xuanfu, and the general listened, and he spoke more than verbally, and even shouted long live, and then there was an internal supervisor who pulled him out and waited outside, and after a while, another internal supervisor came out, holding the appointment document drawn by the emperor and letting him accept the order."

After he left the palace with the holy decree, the young man was waiting for him, and the two of them returned to the hostel together, the general had nothing to doubt at this time, he could recognize the emperor's signature and drawing, and the appointment document was also an official specification, and there would never be a fake. And he cashed in the money happily. ”

"Deception to this level is really not deception, it is simply art."

Besides, laughing, honestly if he hadn't known it was a deception, even he would have believed it.

Then came Coke's, the general had a drink that night, and then waited in the hostel for the clerks of the military department, but after waiting for a month, he heard that the chief military officer of the Xuanfu had been newly appointed, and it was not him at all. He was furious, and took the emperor's appointment and went to the military department to make a fuss, saying that this chief military officer was appointed by the emperor, and the military department had no right to appoint others. Where have the people in the military department seen such a domineering general, so they arrested him and interrogated him, and after he took out the emperor's appointment, the military department was also shocked, and then asked the people in the palace, but the palace didn't know about it at all, and he said that a certain princess was not in Beijing at all, but in Jiangnan. ”

"It can be seen that there are still loopholes, but people have infatuation, and they would rather believe it, so there is no way." Besides, he said to himself.

"Well, after careful interrogation, the people of the military department knew that there was a problem here, so they asked the general to take them to the princess's mansion, but he took people to the land from memory, but all he saw was an empty house, and he inquired with his neighbors to find out that it was a large family that rented this mansion half a year ago and moved out a month ago. The general knew at this time that he had been deceived, but he insisted that he had really seen the emperor, and told the situation in the palace clearly, and the people in the military department couldn't figure it out, so they didn't dare to confront the emperor, so they imprisoned him in the prison of the criminal department, ready to ask him a big crime of forging the emperor's imperial pen, and finally the general turned more than 10,000 taels of silver into a relationship, and finally avoided prison and returned to his hometown. Zhou Dingcheng finished speaking, haha laughed non-stop.

"Wonderful, indeed wonderful. But it's such a big effort, just defrauding 40,000 taels of silver, it's too trivial, right? Besides, I feel a little unworthy for those "conscientious" liars who deceive people. With such a big spend, you have to do something earth-shattering.

"You think it's like Xiaojun, stretching out your hand and getting the silver. Forty thousand taels of silver is a lot. But these people are also strange, only deceived this time, and there will be no movement in the future, it stands to reason that although 40,000 taels of silver is a lot, it won't take a few years, and these people's clothing and pomp will cost more than 10,000 taels of silver, and there are so many people. Zhou Dingcheng was also puzzled.

"According to my speculation, it is very likely that someone in the Heavenly Master Sect was in dire need of money to use this trick, and after getting through the difficulties, he gave up, and they were the only ones who had such means. However, no one dared to say this kind of thing, and no one wanted to offend the Heavenly Master Sect. Murong Yanran said with a smile.

"I have to see if my military department documents are fake, don't anyone come to arrest me tomorrow and say that I am fake military department documents." Besides, he hurriedly took out the documents of the military department that he received today and carefully checked them.

Murong Yanran smiled: "Don't worry, there will be no fakes in the documents of the Ministry of War, our people have already checked it, this time it was the person who came out directly to supervise it, and the inside line in the palace also confirmed that it was indeed the emperor's imperial pen who went to the Ministry of War." ”

Besides, he said: "We all have eyeliner in the six departments?" ”

"Of course there are, and there are also officials in the six departments, why the court is afraid of us, it is because we have infiltrated the court from the inside out, from top to bottom." Murong Yanran said.

Besides, he smiled bitterly: "No wonder the court is afraid of us, Song Taizu said that on the side of the couch, how can others be allowed to sleep soundly, we are not sleeping on the side of the couch, but directly sleeping on the emperor's couch." ”

Murong Yanran said with a smile: "Childe, don't worry about it, we know this, but people outside don't know, the court is suspicious at most, but it can't find any evidence, and it can't even prove the existence of our Qinwang faction." It's like we know about the Protector Sect, but in the official archives, there is no such thing as the Protector Sect at all. ”

Besides, they are all worried about the imperial court, there are two huge secret organizations operating privately, silently infiltrating the entire court, and the emperor's dragon chair is directly placed on a volcanic crater that may erupt at any time, how can this govern the country.

"Why are we doing this? Do you really want to subvert the imperial court? "Besides, I don't understand.

"This absolutely does not exist, it turns out that our Qinwang faction was established by the Rongguo Gongdao Yan Patriarch in order to protect Emperor Jianwen, there was no name of the Qinwang faction, and later some of the former ministers of Emperor Jianwen and many people from all over the country who spontaneously joined in with loyalty and righteousness, and they played the signboard of King Qin. After the Daoyan patriarch drove the crane to the west, these people gathered together, and it became the official Qinwang faction, as for where Emperor Jianwen was at that time, or even whether he was still alive, few people know, at least not even recorded in the top-secret information. For generations to come, the organization built an underground network throughout the country with the aim of protecting the relatives and families of Emperor Jianwen and the ministers who had fled with him. Subsequently, it continued to develop from generation to generation, and this is the current scale, and as for the infiltration of the inside and outside of the imperial court, it was not intentional, but it was achieved unconsciously. Murong Yanran explained, obviously she felt that she should let Besides know some of the origin of the Qinwang faction.

"So my ancestor is one of those ministers who followed Emperor Jianwen away?" Besides, this is the mystery of his background, and it is also what he is most concerned about.

"It should be, otherwise everyone wouldn't respect you and your ancestors so much."

"But there should have been a lot of ministers who followed Emperor Jianwen to run away at that time, are their families all gone, and only our family is still there?" And then he asked.

"I really don't know the specifics, since I joined the organization, I knew that your family, the son at that time was your father, and now it's you."

"Is Childe just an honorific title, or does it mean something else?" And then he asked.

"There is only one childe, and it is also the person who nominally has the highest power, since you become an adult, you will automatically become a childe, and your father can only be called an old man."

"Just like the emperor and the emperor?" Zhou Dingcheng blurted out.

"Big brother, you're talking nonsense again." Besides, he scolded with a smile.

"The analogy may not be right, but that's true." Murong Yanran said.

"Then I only have the supreme power in name, but in fact I don't have any rights, if I follow the analogy just now, wouldn't I be Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty?" Besides, he smiled bitterly.

"It can't be said that there is no Cao Cao in our organization, and there will be no Wang Mang, and there is a perfect system to prevent this. You can rest assured of that. You may be dissatisfied with your arrangements, but in fact, it is really to protect you to the greatest extent, and your security is the premise of the organization's existence. ”

Besides, he shook his head, he didn't want to listen to it anymore, and it was nothing more than his safety concern, depriving him of the right to know, the right to rule, and all other rights, just to protect his safety. Isn't this overhead?

He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, his father drove a carriage to take him and his sister to escape, and at that time he did not see anyone to rescue him, and it is estimated that his father was also tired of being with these people and was fed up with their protection, so he fled, probably not only to avoid the pursuit of the ancestor faction, but also to avoid the protection of the Qinwang faction.

Now he feels the same way, preferring to abandon all this, return to Jiangnan, and live an ordinary life of a white-clothed showman, writing and painting, drinking wine, and staying away from the complex political center.

It's a pity that he can't do it at all, since he was born, he will inevitably encounter these experiences, maybe this is fate.

At this time, someone outside said, "My lord, Lord Zhang, a member of the Cabinet University, is here." ”

"What?"

Besides, he didn't have time to answer, jumped up from his chair and rushed out to meet Zhang Juzheng.