The King of Qi was defeated, and the number of people implicated is increasing every day, the State of Qi bears the brunt, the most people are arrested, the palace is also the hardest hit area, and the earliest affected, hundreds of people were imprisoned on the night of the emperor's assassination, under severe torture, they spit out more names, a few months later, the number of people in prison has reached 13400, so far, none has been released.

No one knows how long the purge will last, let alone who will be next.

"At first, everyone thought it was normal, after all, the assassin had been hiding in the palace for several years, and he should indeed investigate it thoroughly, but now everyone doesn't think so, and they all think ...... I all feel that ......" Although Zhang Youcai is bold, there are things he doesn't dare to say.

"Do you think the Queen Mother has ulterior motives?" Han Ruzi continued for him.

"Well, there are more and more outsiders in the palace, like Zuo Ji, who is about to cover the sky with one hand, but he is just an ordinary eunuch in Cishun Palace, not even a regular attendant." Zhang Youcai said indignantly that the person he hated the most was not the Queen Mother, but Zuo Ji.

"Jing Yao is an old man in the palace, and his status seems to be very stable." Han Ruzi can often see Jing Yao stamping the treasure seal in the Qinzheng Palace, and feels that he is very trusted by the Queen Mother.

"Because he has captured the most people." Zhang Youcai's voice was a little loud, he hurriedly shut up, and listened for a while before continuing: "In order to keep his position, Jing Yao did everything he could, desperately arresting people in the palace, even his cronies who had followed him for many years, he said, 'Whether it is a traitor or loyalty, you can only know if you go to prison once or twice', but he himself didn't enter once." ”

Han Ruzi turned to Tong Qing'e's approximate location, "The assassin is a eunuch, is the palace maid also implicated?" ”

"Huh?" Tong Qing'e sobbed in horror, "There is no distinction between eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, as long as you have had a relationship with Qiu Jizu and Shen Sanhua, even if you just say a few words, you will be arrested and interrogated, Zhang Youcai and I don't know how long we can serve Your Majesty, I heard that ......"

"Although I say, I am not the queen mother." Han Ruzi encouraged.

"I heard that the Queen Mother is going to call eunuchs and palace maids from the palace outside, saying that they will not have bad intentions, and we old people will be kicked out of the palace in the future and go to remote places to guard the tomb, and some people will be martyred for Emperor Si." The more Tong Qing'e spoke, the more timid she became, and her voice was as low as a mosquito's chirp.

Although the life of the palace is not very superior, no one wants to leave, the burial is the real dead, and the tomb keeper is the living dead.

Han Ruzi felt that the queen mother would not change all the people in the palace, this was probably a rumor from the eunuchs and palace maids after they were frightened, but this kind of emotion was not bad for him, and he said to Zhang Youcai: "Tell me what is going on with you 'hard-working people'." ”

In the dark, I only heard Zhang Youcai take a deep breath, "Originally, we all swore that we would never forgive sins to outsiders - Your Majesty, and I mean outsiders by ......"

"I understand, you go on." Han Ruzi can understand that in the palace, the emperor and the concubine are the masters, and they are also "outsiders" in the eyes of the slaves.

"Please don't misunderstand, Your Majesty, we are not an organization, we don't even have a name, and we have no ambitions, just a group of people who help each other, share food, have someone to take care of when they are sick, pass on a message when they have something important, and sometimes they will pool money for someone to honor their boss, if anyone is promoted because of this, just remember the former friends, we have a saying - once you are rich, don't forget the old knowledge."

"'Once you are rich, don't forget the old knowledge.'" Han Ruzi read it again, and vaguely remembered that an old gentleman had said something similar.

Tong Qing'e said in a low voice: "Zhang Youcai, you really say everything, and you are not afraid of Your Majesty's jokes." ”

Han Ruzi said: "How can you laugh, this is also what I want to say to you, 'Once you are rich, don't forget the old knowledge', you are my old acquaintance." ”

Zhang Youcai and Tong Qing'e kowtowed under the bed, and Han Ruzi suddenly remembered something, "Shen Sanhua confessed that the assassin Qiu Jizu once bribed him, and Qiu Jizu is also one of your people?" ”

"No, no, Qiu Jizu is not." Tong Qing'e hurriedly denied it, "Shen Sanhua is, Qiu Jizu was relatively rich when he entered the palace, and he was not the same as us hard-working people." Shen Sanhua is one of the people we raised money to carry up, he has not forgotten our old friends, who usually take good care of us, but now he is locked up in prison, and I heard that he is tortured every day. ”

"Are you worried that Shen Sanhua won't be able to hold on and will confess to you hard-working people?"

The two of them kowtowed under the bed again, this is what they are most worried about, Tong Qing'e was originally more cautious, but Zhang Youcai said most of the things, and she no longer hid her secrets, "In addition to pooling money to honor our boss, we really haven't done anything, we often warn each other, don't make trouble, even if anyone is wronged, we just go over to comfort us, and we never help to take revenge." But this is the palace, and most of the bosses and eunuchs have backers, and they are not all the way with us, as for the queen mother, ......"

Tong Qing'e still didn't dare to continue, Zhang Youcai said: "The Queen Mother doesn't know the suffering of our people at all, once she hears about us, she will definitely be furious and treat us as fellow assassins, but we are really not." ”

This group of eunuchs and palace maids are also desperate, otherwise they would not have asked for the puppet emperor.

Han Ruzi asked, "You ...... It should be called a 'miserable man'. ”

Although Zhang Youcai was young, he reacted quickly, and immediately kowtowed: "Thank you for your name." ”

Han Ruzi smiled, he didn't care about the hidden organization of the slaves and maids in the palace at all, but felt that this was an excellent opportunity, "How many of you are miserable?" ”

"Probably...... Forty or fifty people, these are all people who know the roots, plus friends and friends, the number is even more, how can there be four or five hundred. Zhang Youcai replied.

"You know the roots at such a young age?" Han Ruzi said with a smile, Zhang Youcai is the same age as him, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a "big man".

"Actually, I'm not, I'm just a 'friend of friends', and I ...... to this day"

"I am." Tong Qing'e said that at such a time, there is no need to hide anything.

"You are? I thought you were just hearing about it today, just like me. Zhang Youcai was startled first.

"I am, when Zuo Ji chose the palace maid to teach...... When the way of husband and wife, everyone pooled money to honor a steward eunuch and recommended me to Zuo Ji, I thought that I could please Zuo Ji after meritorious service, but His Majesty was not close to women, Zuo Ji accused me of incompetence, and I offended him instead. ”

Han Ruzi was dumbfounded, even sleeping with the emperor had to rely on bribes, I really didn't know whether to be proud or sad about it, "Forty or fifty people, it should be enough, do any of you know martial arts?" ”

"No, but a few of us have good relationships with the guards." Tong Qing'e said.

"Friends of friends don't, as long as you people." Han Ruzi didn't want to expand the scope.

"What does Your Majesty want us to do?" Zhang Youcai was very excited, he was pulled into the inner circle of "hard-working people" by his friends today, and he was already thinking about doing great things, "We are not afraid of death, we dare to do anything." ”

Han Ruzi smiled, he didn't dare to use a group of "hard-working people" to carry out palace changes, that would not only harm them, but also harm himself, "It's better to live, I don't want to die, and I won't let you die, um......" An idea gradually grew in his mind, "One day, this day may come soon, I will need your help, not a palace change, not a war, or go with me to a place, there, I will re-ascend the throne and become a true emperor, and when the time comes, 'once you are rich, don't forget the old knowledge'." ”

The two kowtowed again.

"We should agree on a code, and as soon as someone says the code to you, you will immediately find someone and go and join me." Han Ruzi tried to make the plan as safe as possible.

"'Miserable people' are good." Tong Qing'e said.

"Okay, that's it, the person who sent you the code may not be me, you believe it."

The emperor actually had other available people, which made Tong Qing'e and Zhang Youcai even happier, and kept kowtowing, Han Ruzi persuaded: "That's it, remember, what I'm going to do is a bit dangerous, but I won't kill anyone, I don't want to kill anyone in the palace, understand?" ”

"Understood." The two said in unison, Zhang Youcai was small after all, and he couldn't hold his breath, and said: "Your Majesty must be fast, we are terrified every day, as soon as Shen Sanhua relaxes, we can ...... There's no way to do anything for Your Majesty. ”

"Well, I'll do it as soon as possible." Han Ruzi couldn't guarantee time, things were not up to him, he had to wait for the time, waiting for the imperial concubine and Luo Huanzhang to implement their plan.

Taifu Cui Hong will definitely sneak back to the capital secretly, as soon as he arrives, Luo Huanzhang will take out two holy decrees, respectively to remove the Southern Army Grand Sima and the palace lieutenant general, and hand them over to the Cui family to serve, and the imperial concubine and the king of the East China Sea will cooperate with him inside and outside the palace.

Han Ruzi found that he still had a chance: the holy decree in Luo Huanzhang's hand was written by him, and the Cui family would definitely use his banner in the uprising, as long as he escaped the murder of the imperial concubine and the king of the East China Sea on the day of the incident, and appeared in front of the ministers in time, everything would still be his, and the Cui family would never dare to kill the monarch in public, as for how to deal with the Cui family in the future, don't think about it first.

The problem is that he doesn't yet know what the imperial concubine and the king of the East China Sea will do.

Han Ruzi was not in a hurry to see the Queen Mother, but desperately hoped for the arrival of another person - Meng E was the person he needed the most at the moment, and he had a plan, and only Meng E could help realize it.

"Go to sleep." Han Ruzi said that his heart was no longer empty.

In the first half of the night, the three people in the dormitory didn't fall asleep much, Zhang Youcai was so excited that he tossed and turned, Tong Qing'e was full of worries, and Han Ruzi was always listening attentively, looking forward to Meng E's appearance.

Therefore, when in the middle of the night there was a sudden shaking and roaring of the house, they all sat up at once, and there was no sleepiness at all.

On the third day of the seventh month of the first year of success, there was an earthquake in Beijing, and at that time, no one expected its impact to be so great.

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