Of course, Wu Chaoyue was carried by the guards to the noon gate to wait for the order, but what moved Wu Chaoyue was that he was escorted to this legendary ghost place where his head was cut off and he could not ascend to heaven, Li Hongzhang even followed and hid in the crowd to watch the excitement, and several dogs led by Wu Dadao also followed loyally, and they kept shouting even more loyally......

"Go buy paper money incense candles! Remember, paper money needs yellow paper! Incense to sandalwood! Also, buy a wooden box and a few pounds of lime! Young Master Sun is thin, and the wooden box should be smaller! ”

"Nonsense! Lime, of course, to buy quicklime! Put Young Master Sun's head in slaked lime and bring it back to Xiangshan?! ”

Of course, Wu Chaoyue didn't have to worry that he would be cut off by the Qing Dynasty with the crime of betrayal of the country, Wu Chaoyue was just worried about the consequences of Emperor Xianfeng seeing the letter - before this, Wu Chaoyue never thought that the letter from the enemy's ancestors would be sent to the Xianfeng Emperor, and he always estimated that the letter would only be sent to the military aircraft at most, and then let the middle hall of the military aircraft department clean up Song Jin and his behind.

Next, the development of things naturally exceeded Wu Chaoyue's expectations again, a eunuch actually came out of the imperial city to pass the decree, asking the imperial guards to take Wu Chaoyue to the Jinluan Palace to face the king, Wu Chaoyue suspected that his ears were wrong, but the two guards wearing flat yellow coats did not say a word, and slipped Wu Chaoyue up to the imperial city, Wu Chaoyue then realized that he was really going to see Emperor Xianfeng. The matter was too sudden, Wu Chaoyue was inevitably a little nervous, and hurriedly asked the eunuch who passed the decree: "This father-in-law, why does the emperor want to see me?" ”

Of course, the eunuch ignored Wu Chaoyue, but just led the guards to escort Wu Chaoyue directly into the Taihe Palace, so, without preparation, our Wu family's young master Wu Chaoyue went to the Jinluan Hall in a daze, and also met with the legendary Emperor Xianfeng of the Great Qing Dynasty.

The genetics of the Aixin Jueluo family have always been not very good, and Emperor Xianfeng is still a typical representative of it, even if the cheeks are dry and thin, the cheekbones are prominent, and there are a pair of goldfish eyes with prominent eyeballs. And Wu Chaoyue, who has always been very inferior to his appearance after the crossing, just began to congratulate himself that he was more handsome and handsome than Emperor Xianfeng, and there were already many officials in the Jinluan Palace who shouted angrily: "Bold, long live today, don't you salute?" ”

There was no choice, in order not to fall to the ground, Wu Chaoyue could only obediently perform a very humiliating etiquette, and peeked at the comprador grandfather Wu Jianzhang, who was also kneeling on the Jinluan Palace, as well as Weng Tongshu and Song Jin, who had even taken off their tops. When he quietly went to see the hundreds of military officials in the palace, Wu Chaoyue found that many officials in this Jinluan Hall looked very unkind, and many people laughed with obvious ill intentions, which made Wu Chaoyue even more sure that this unexpected opportunity to go to the palace would definitely not be a good thing.

Sure enough, Emperor Xianfeng spoke, and asked in an unkind tone, "What's your name?" ”

"Grass people Wu transcendence." Wu Chaoyue still remembered the self-proclaimed people of this era, and then remembered the smooth words on TV, "Wu Chaoyue, the grass people, long live the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”

"Do you know why I announced you to the palace?" Emperor Xianfeng asked again.

"The grass people don't know." Wu Chaoyue shook his head, and said quickly: "But no matter what the emperor is for, the grass people can go to the palace with their cloth clothes to face the king, which is a blessing that the grass people have cultivated for ten lifetimes!" After the grass people have it in the future, they will definitely tell their descendants to keep in mind this grace of the emperor, so that the children and grandchildren of the grass people will be loyal to the Qing Dynasty from generation to generation, and long live their allegiance to our emperor! ”

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's flattering sycophancy, Mu Yin, Lin Kui, Monk Greenqin and others, who originally thought that Wu Chaoyue would definitely be scared, were inevitably a little dumbfounded, but they never expected that Wu Chaoyue not only did not have the slightest stage fright, but also beat the sycophants more than them. Emperor Xianfeng nodded, feeling a little good about Wu Chaoyue, and his voice slowed down a little, he nodded and said: "I didn't expect you to be so calm and calm when you go to the palace for the first time at such a young age, and the answer is like a stream, it's rare." ”

"The emperor has won the award." After all, he was mixed in a state-owned enterprise, Wu Chaoyue's sycophancy definitely came as soon as he opened his mouth, and said: "The key is that the emperor is as amiable as the grass people imagined, and he is one of the few Daoming monarchs in China in the past 5,000 years, far surpassing the supreme saint monarch of the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty!" Let the grass people feel the warmth of spring and the care of a mother, so the grass people can speak freely in front of the emperor and vent their hearts! ”

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's brazen sycophants, the civil and military officials in the Jinluan Palace wanted to vomit, but the Xianfeng Emperor, who was known as the four emperors without vision, courage, talent and inaction, was Longyan Dayue, and said with a smile: "Wu Jianzhang, Wu Aiqing, your grandson is more able to speak than you." ”

"Thank you for your praise." Wu Jianzhang hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, and while he was relieved, he couldn't help but muttered quietly, "Old man, grandson, when did you learn to be so shameless?" ”

Seeing that Emperor Xianfeng had been flattered and smiled, Monk Greenqin secretly shouted that it was not good, and hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, you should ask if this grass people have the intention to insult the saint." ”

The monk Grinqin reminded that Emperor Xianfeng remembered that Wu Chaoyue was in the palace for other things, and at that moment Emperor Xianfeng regained his face, picked up the letter written in English and shouted: "Wu Chaoyue, I ask you, where did you come from with this foreign letter that Song Jin got from you?" ”

Afraid that the letter would be dropped by Song Jin and Weng Tongshu, Wu Chaoyue begged Emperor Xianfeng very carefully to let him see the content of the letter clearly, and then replied: "Your Majesty, this letter was written by the grass people themselves. ”

"You can also write foreign languages?"

Emperor Xianfeng asked with some surprise, and after Wu Chaoyue nodded in acknowledgement, Mu Yin next to him immediately asked: "Wu Chaoyue, as a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, you don't read the Four Books and Five Classics of the Qing Dynasty, why do you want to learn foreign languages?" ”

Mu Yin's question is of course a trap, whether Wu Chaoyue answers that it is convenient to do business with foreigners or to answer that it is convenient to deal with foreigners, Mu Yin and other xenophobic factions will naturally have an excuse to accuse Wu Chaoyue of being foreign-minded. But it's a pity that Wu Chaoyue, who knows how stupid and conservative the Qing court is in this era, can't be fooled, and replied: "Back to this lord, the grass people learn foreign languages, of course, in order to master the long skills of the Yi to control the Yi!" ”

"Fourteen years ago, during the Opium War, although the grass people were young and ignorant of the world, they also felt deeply ashamed of the country after they grew up and became sensible, and vowed to avenge the foreigners for the Qing court, so the grass people worked hard and studied foreign languages hard, only waiting for the future to be used by the Qing court, so that the emperor and the court could know themselves and the enemy to the foreigners through the grass people, and win all battles! Long live the emperor and the Qing court to recover Hong Kong, send troops to Malacca, sweep the seven oceans, and unify the continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America! Long live the emperor and command the world! ”

Mu Yin and countless civil and military officials were even more dumbfounded, and they all quietly went to see Wu Jianzhang, and secretly said in their hearts: "How did this old thing give birth to a grandson?" Why does sycophant talk come out of your mouth? Is it more brazen than the other, and shameless than the other? ”

"Help the emperor and the court to know themselves and the enemy to foreigners?" Monk Lingqin sneered and said, "Then why are you still helping foreigners preach?" What is Jesus Christ to lure the people of the Qing Dynasty to believe? ”

"This lord, the grass people are helping foreigners to preach." Wu Chaoyue also calmly admitted this proven crime, and then said: "But my lord, if the grass people can't win the trust of the foreigners, how can they spy on the secrets of the foreigners' ships and guns for the imperial court?" How can we find the weaknesses and shortcomings of foreigners and help our Qing court attack their key points and take their lives? ”

Monk Greenqin was also dumbfounded, and Wu Chaoyue gushed inexhaustibly, and said: "Dare to ask this lord, when I was the Great Qing Dynasty Taizu, if there were no Qing warriors to peep into the enemy's situation, grasp the movement of the former Ming army, and help my Great Qing Taizu discover the weakness of the Ming army's scattered forces, how could my Qing army break the Ming army of 400,000 in the Battle of Sarhu?" Later, when I was Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, if Emperor Taizong had not come to the battlefield to inspect the enemy's situation, and found the weakness of the Ming army's march that was heavy in front and light in the rear, if there was no warrior of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, throwing their heads and spilling their blood, and discovering where the granary of the Ming army was, how could the army of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty break the Ming army in the Battle of Songshan and capture Hong Chengchou alive? ”

Monk Lingqin didn't even dare to say anything, but regretted in his heart: "Damn, I knew that this Southern Barbarian was so able to speak, and he shouldn't have instigated the emperor to announce him to the palace just now!" ”

Monk Lingqin and the others regretted it in their hearts, but Emperor Xianfeng nodded again and again, waved his hand and said: "Okay, Monk Aiqing, Wu Aiqing's ancestors and grandsons helped foreigners preach, Su Aiqing has already proved that the situation is not serious, so don't mention it here." Wu Chaoyue, I just want to ask a question about this letter now, did you find out that Song Jin deliberately tried to test you, so you created this letter to trick him? ”

Wu Chaoyue wanted to nod, but when his head just moved, Wu Chaoyue forced himself to calm down - teasing the court officials and making such a big deal out of the matter, admitting it was not a trivial matter. So Wu Chaoyue simply replied while thinking in his heart, "Your Majesty, at that time, the grass people had already discovered that Lord Song had bad intentions and contacted the grass people, but they just wanted to spy on the grass people's grandfather to negotiate with the foreigners, so the grass people pretended to be drunk and went out to vomit, and temporarily made up this fake letter." But....... ”

Speaking of this as verbose as possible, Wu Chaoyue already had an idea in his heart, paused deliberately, and then raised his voice and said: "But the grass people did this, not to play with Lord Song, but to take the opportunity to find out the traitor!" ”

"Pick up the traitor?!"

There was a great uproar in the Manchu Dynasty, and Emperor Xianfeng was also stunned by Wu Chaoyue's words, and was stunned for a moment before asking: "Wu Chaoyue, you made this false letter in order to find out the traitor?" ”