Although Yue Qianqiu had a palace registration at the age of seven, although his grandfather had been the prime minister for many years, although he was not without the experience of walking in the palace overnight...... But for him, it was the first time he had walked into the political hall. After all, it is not wrong for him to have a background, and it is not wrong for him to go to the court, but because he is not a minister, he has never set foot in this real government center of the Southern Dynasty.

Even at night, all the buildings in the vicinity were still brightly lit, like a bright lamp in the dark palace, illuminating the surroundings. And in this kind of time when ordinary people go to bed early, and the eunuchs' families start to rest unless they drink and feast, he bumps into several people who are walking in a hurry with paperwork along the way, and each of them will stop and look at him in surprise, and then suddenly burst out with a title.

That's right, it was his thunderous title in Jinling City-Nine Princes-that even saved the word Yue.

And because the person who accompanied him was Chen Wuliang, the most trusted chamberlain by the emperor's side, no one criticized his arrival, but when he walked away a little far, those discussions could no longer stop. It's just that Yue Qianqiu, who was worried about his grandfather's attitude towards beating the drums tonight, was no longer interested in pricking up his ears to listen to people's gossip.

But when he was about to reach the innermost room, Yue Qianqiu saw Chen Wuliang, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, if he hadn't stopped his body stiffly, he almost hit the other party's back directly. Before he could speak, Chen Wuliang said with a smile: "The emperor ordered the ninth prince to visit the elder Xiangye, so I won't go in, go back first to resume my life." You have to take good care of the older Xiangye, in case something happens to the pillar of the country, the emperor can only ask. ”

"Yes, yes......" Yue Qianqiu hurriedly smiled and agreed, and when Chen Wuliang turned around and left, the person gradually disappeared from sight, he hurriedly came to the door with an arrow step, listened for a while, and gently pushed the door open. As a result, the scene that caught his eye made him stay there directly, and then he quickly slipped into the door, and while closing the door, he also quickly put the latch.

What's going on in the house? Mrs. Yue is sitting at a small round table drinking wine, with four dishes in front of him, and the posture of leisurely drinking alone, where is it like a prime minister who has been stunned?

"Grandpa!" Yue Qianqiu didn't know what to say, and after stepping forward quickly, he sat down in front of the old lady Yue, and then he lowered his voice and said, "Are you too big?" You know, Chen Wuliang almost came in with me just now, if he hadn't said that he wanted to go back temporarily, seeing you like this, how would you ask him to repay the emperor? ”

"Afraid of what? I said that I was dizzy, that is, I was dizzy, and now I can drink wine, I just wake up and use wine to kill my sorrows, sighing sadly, as long as Chen Wuliang wants to return like this, then he will return it like this. As long as the emperor wants people to think so, he will insist that I am dizzy. So, it's not what I do, it's what others want to think and want to think. ”

The old lady threw a soy bean into his mouth leisurely, and he glanced at Yue Qianqiu and said, "How does it feel when the drum is beaten?" Isn't it refreshing and exciting? ”

"Grandpa, don't make fun of me, didn't I get forced? Shen Zheng has always been unable to get along with me, I was generous enough last time, and recommended him to continue to carry the burden, but how did he repay me? directly arrested Qing Fengnian and Ling Zhu'er, if it weren't for my trouble, those two wouldn't know how to be tortured! ”

"Oh, then why do you have to say that it was Pei Xu who was framed by Shen Zheng? You didn't expect that Shen Zheng said that the Yue family framed the Pei family, and you in turn beat a rake, but this is likely to be crooked and let Pei Xu get out? ”

"If I don't say that, do I still argue that it wasn't our Yue family who did it, where can I find a scapegoat?" Yue Qianqiu shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, a sly smile appeared on his face, "Give him hope and make him desperate, this is the best way to take revenge." Since the Pei family wanted me to die, I didn't let them die, I only made them desperate, which was already very kind. ”

Hearing Yue Qianqiu say this, the old lady squinted her eyes slightly, and said straightforwardly: "When you were making up for sleep at home today, I pulled Ye Guanghan to see Xiao Qingqing, and it happened that Xiao Jingxian was also there, and Ji Yue and Little Miss Song were also beside Xiao Jingjing. ”

He mentioned the whole meeting process lightly, and when it came to Xiao Qingqing's last words, he saw Yue Qianqiu's face sinking and scolded in a low voice, so he said quietly: "Pei Xu is gone, and then Shen Zheng, in a sense, our ancestors and grandchildren are missing two biggest enemies." Do you know what the emperor's attitude is towards this? ”

"The emperor's ......" thought carefully about the emperor's previous attitude of favoring himself rather than mud, Yue Qianqiu muttered in a low voice, "The emperor seems to be angry with Shen Zheng, not me......"

"That's right, because the emperor is Mingjun, it is not you and me who are angry, but Shen Zheng, and it is Pei Xu who falls!" The old lady suddenly shook his hand as he spoke, and the sauce soybeans on the chopsticks flew directly towards Yue Qianqiu, seeing Yue Qianqiu raise his head and catch it with his mouth steadily, and then chewed the beans and made a face at himself, he took a sip of wine and said, "Another reason, the emperor and I have the same ambition." ”

If these words are poked out, they will definitely cause an uproar. After all, as a courtier, he dared to say that his ambition was the same as that of the Son of Heaven, how unbelievable is this, or is it shameless?

However, after Yue Qianqiu was stunned for a moment, he asked suspiciously: "Grandpa, your ambition is not really ......?"

"The world is unified." Seeing Yue Qianqiu's gasping and toothache, the old lady smiled and said, "It's unrealistic, isn't it?" Beiyan is not going downhill now, the two countries are fighting, and Dawu is even slightly inferior in terms of military strength, that is, it is not lost to Beiyan in terms of national strength. If it really starts up like this, I am afraid that it will be a devastated life, with countless casualties. ”

Yue Qianqiu saw that his grandfather was not so dizzy that he wanted to casually fight the war to destroy the country, so he quickly nodded and said, "That's right, grandpa is wise!" ”

"If I'm clamoring there to fight a war to destroy the country, you should call me old and stupid, right?"

Old lady Yue glared at his little grandson angrily, and when he saw that Yue Qianqiu smiled dryly and didn't speak, he sighed, with a hint of coldness on his face: "But no matter what you want to do, there can't be those people who are too selfish in the court." Forcing everyone to think in one place and working hard in one place makes it impossible, but people who are too selfish will easily stab Lou Zi at critical moments. ”

Yue Qianqiu immediately asked, "So Ye Xiang and Yu Xiang are very suitable allies in Grandpa's mind?" ”

"It's not my ally, it's the emperor's minister, someone who can make great things happen with it." Speaking of this, Old Lady Yue said in a deep voice, "If Shen Zheng is not obsessed with holding on to you, even because you are eyeing me, it doesn't hurt to keep him, and I don't want to be said to arbitrarily eradicate dissidents, but he can't help others from calculating and jumping out, then it's no wonder to me." ”

Hearing this, if Yue Qianqiu still can't understand some famous halls, then he is a pig's brain. He subconsciously stood up and supported the table with both hands: "Grandpa, did you know that Xiao Qingqing was calculating the Pei family and Shen Zheng?" That's how you let her do it? ”

"Although Emperor Beiyan claims to be in charge of power, he has allowed the country to rebel and rebel over the years, and he has ended hastily in the south twice before and after, and besides, I am afraid that in Xiao Qingqing's eyes, the emperor who failed to keep the queen is not worthy of being called the hero. I think she is not optimistic about Beiyan, who overemphasizes that the winner is king, so she came to Dawu. In the past ten years, I haven't noticed her, which is my mistake, but since I revealed my whereabouts with her, I have found a lot of things. ”

"Xiao Qingqing's Red Moon Palace has recruited a lot of people, but many of them have been sent to Beiyan, do you know what kind of goods they are? Bandits, bandits, assassins, fanatics...... Each of them was introduced by her to the powerful men of Beiyan by all means, because in Beiyan, the strong is the king, and the winner is the king, and such a master is very popular. In those years, the imperial court suppressed all the major sects, these people stayed in Dawu but were reckless, but when they arrived in Beiyan, they were powerful and powerful people, how do you think they would choose? ”

Yue Qianqiu listened to it in his ears, and only felt that his eyes were swaying, and he thought to himself, could it be that Xiao Qingqing was an internationalist warrior, and he went to the Wu Dynasty to help eliminate those turbulent factors, not to mention, but also sent the turbulent factors to the scourge of Beiyan?

"She wasn't at ease. If those Northern Yan magnates can appoint these heroic fanatics from the south, and then lead the way when they go south to use troops, then she will naturally let it go and let go and watch Beiyan unify the south with the north, but although there are countless people in Beiyan who want to go south, their hearts are not very aligned, and they fight and kill each other too much, and these should have been best used to lead the way until there are few left in the end. ”

Speaking of this, Old Lady Yue showed a somewhat smug smile: "Of course, that guy has contributed a lot to this." ”

Yue Qianqiu understood at once. Yue Xiaosi, who had been mixed in the Great Wu Martial Arts for a while, went to Beiyan to become a horse master, and after discovering some clues, it was strange not to start! Even if some powerful people don't treat people as thugs, he will trap all those leading party into it, Xiao Qingqing is really unlucky to meet such a lurker!

"Xiao Qingqing really doesn't know about his existence?"

Old lady Yue shrugged: "I'm not sure if she knows, but I want to use her cleverness to guess that I have someone in Beiyan, that's for sure." It's just that that guy is not contacted by the imperial court, and she must not be able to grasp it no matter how she touches it. So, presumably she quickly changed her mind. ”

"Since Northern Yan has no hope of unifying the south with the north, what about the south of Dawu to unify the north?"

Old lady Yue tapped lightly on the table, with a hint of mockery on her face: "Of course, there are quite a group of people in my court who are afraid of Beiyan like a tiger, and there are also a group of guys who have nothing to do and drag the military generals back, if they don't clean up, there is no way to reach an agreement." Therefore, she, an unscrupulous person, naturally helped clean it up. ”

"Do you think that a lot of official selfishness that Lou Yingchang broke out before, how did it come about? With the spy agents he has personally laid out in the south in the past few years, can he get so many dozen accurate and ironclad evidence? You went to Beiyan before, and you didn't have time to pay attention to that list...... Oh, those guys are either vegetarian, pessimistic and war-afraid, or corrupt...... In a word, there are almost no good people, and this purging is good. ”

Yue Qianqiu was completely dizzy. This is Xiao Qingqing standing behind Lou Yingchang, and asked the second-in-command of the Northern Yan Qiu Hunting Division to conduct a targeted anti-corruption ...... No, is it a targeted killing? He really didn't think that there would be someone so internationalist these days, no, this can't be said to be internationalism, more serious should be said to be treason!

"Grandpa, such an obvious situation, wouldn't Lou Ying be so stupid that he didn't notice it at all? Also, how do you know that? It can't be Xiao Qingqing who said it to you, right? ”

Old lady Yue sighed softly, raised her glass again and drank it all, and then wiped her mouth and said, "Xiao Qingqing said half of it, and I made up half of it." After all, your Uncle Ying's status in the rivers and lakes has been quite high over the years, and he has also heard a lot about some things. I still understand the truth that you must not believe it and not believe it all.

As for Lou Yingchang...... Most of the private people he found were children of the family, several of them from the Pei family, do you think he would think that the Pei family was powerful, and he broke those things, and I would only have a headache, but I didn't dare to touch the Pei family, so it caused civil strife in my court? ”

Just when Yue Qianqiu wanted to continue asking, he suddenly caught a very obvious squeak - at first glance, it sounded like a mouse gnawing wood, but he couldn't believe that there could be a mouse in the most heavily defended place of the political affairs hall, where people were still talking. Seeing that the old lady Yue was silent for a moment, he didn't have to think about it to know that someone was coming, and the squeak was just a code.

Sure enough, after a while, he heard a familiar sound of footsteps, followed by a knock on the door. It's just that the knocking sound on the door is very restrained, knocking three times and stopping for a while, he can even vaguely feel people sticking their ears to the door.

Before he could speak, he saw his grandfather drop the chopsticks in his hand, and slipped to the soft couch that obviously had the shape of a quilt, kicked off his shoes directly, took off his clothes, and closed his eyes after drilling into it.

Dumbfounded, he glanced at the leftovers on the table, almost trying to put up a finger.

That's a fool!

And the knock at the door finally ended, and then the low cry of the little fat man: "The younger Jiu, the older Xiangye, how is it?" ”

Hearing this voice, Yue Qianqiu glanced at the mess on the table again, and finally had to get up and open the door. Finding that there was only one little fat man outside, and there was no other entourage, he let people in, and before he could speak, he found that the little fat man's eyes fell directly on the table, and then looked at the old lady Yue on the soft couch.

I said...... The older the Xiangye, he also treats me too much as an outsider, right? The little fat man walked straight to the old lady's couch, sat down on the side, and then said with a smile, "Although I came to visit your old man on the order of my father, but your old man has already drunk a little wine so blatantly, and is still pretending to be sick in front of me, isn't it too unkind?" ”

The old lady Yue opened one eye and saw that the door had been latched by Yue Qianqiu, so he slowly got up, sighed and said, "When you are old, it is common to faint, and it does not hinder eating and drinking." My grandson has been bullied, and if I don't even do it, wouldn't it be easy to bully? His Royal Highness the King of England turned around, please tell the emperor for me, I will definitely teach a lesson when I go back. ”

The little fat man immediately chased after him: "How to teach a lesson?" But because he was woken up as soon as he fell asleep, I hurried to Ningfu Hall to intercede for him, and just scolded Shen Zheng for a bloody head! ”

After showing his merits without modesty, the little fat man snorted at Yue Qianqiu vividly: "Shen Zheng will definitely fall off the horse, but you casually beat the Dengwen drum this time, how can your father punish you, thank me well, I will help you find a way!" ”

Regarding the little fat man's attitude of not treating himself as an outsider, the old lady Yue couldn't help but smile so much that her eyes narrowed, and she didn't wait for Yue Qianqiu to speak: "If His Royal Highness is willing to help Qianqiu, then Qianqiu has to thank you." It's just that he stabbed a lot of baskets, and if he didn't even have a little punishment, it would always be unreasonable. So, of course I appreciate your kindness, but I think you might as well help him in another way. For example, think of a better punishment? ”

Before Yue Qianqiu could protest, the little fat man slapped his face vigorously and said, "It's not simple? Punish Qianqiu to go to the drum platform to be a drum guard for half a month, let him experience the difficulties and hardships of others, and that's it! ”