Su Xiaoliu and Fuji held the back of the long Taoist robe for Xue Jingyi, entered the Yuanling Palace together, bypassed several halls along the stone paved trail, and came to the east wing of the north of the Yizhen Hall where the Empress Dowager Gongci was temporarily resting, and then the eunuchs outside the hall entered the report, and then invited the three of them to enter together.

Xue Jingyi still walked in front, Su Xiaoliu followed closely behind, and Fuji walked last. After the three of them entered, Xue Jingyi stood tall and said loudly: "Poor Dao Xue Jingyi has seen the Queen Mother!" ”

When Su Xiaoliu was thinking about what he was going to say, he was suddenly pushed by Fu Ji behind him, and then he was pressed to his knees and fell to the ground, and then he was slapped on the back of the head by Fu Ji, who knelt down together, so he kowtowed, only to hear Fu Ji say loudly: "Slave Fu Ji knocks on the Queen Mother!" ”

"I'll rub!" Su Xiaoliu knelt behind Xue Jingyi, feeling extremely unhappy, "This fake Taoist priest is very good, Lao Tzu is kneeling, you can stand!" Look at Lao Tzu who is mixed up one day, you have to expose your mask! ”

"Daoist, please take a seat!" The Empress Dowager Gongci was very polite to Xue Jingyi, pointed to the sandalwood chair that had been prepared on the side, and then said to the palace maid Xiuyin beside her, "Give tea to the Taoist chief!" ”

"Empress Dowager Xie!" Xue Jingyi stretched out his hand and lifted the hem of his robe, stepped forward majestically, sat down on the chair, and then the palace maid Xiuyin served the poured tea bowl.

"This bull's nose is still sitting," Su Xiaoliu raised his eyes and peeked at it, and saw Xue Jingyi calmly tasting the tea, and his heart was even more jealous, "In this way, Lao Tzu is like kneeling down for you, your grandma, can you stop drinking tea!" ”

"Rise up also!" The Empress Dowager Gongci carried and motioned to Fu Ji and Su Xiaoliu to get up, "Get up and talk!" It's not in the palace, so you don't have to count so many courtesies! ”

"Empress Dowager Xie!" Fukuji spoke, then kowtowed and stood up.

Su Xiaoliu hurriedly learned from him to say a word of thanks, and also stood up, and said secretly in his heart: "Why don't you let me sit down too?" ”

As soon as she stood up, Su Xiaoliu saw that next to the Empress Dowager Gongci, Princess Shouen Yueling was also standing there, but at this time, she was wearing a pink and white cheongsam with a cloud pattern butterfly dance, with a flag on her head, which was very different from the heroic spirit of the previous light casual white dress.

[Netizen]: Look at Su Xiaoliu's fascinated look.

[Netizen]: Is the princess's smile a teasing?

[Netizen]: The two of them belong to "mutual flirting"!

"Fuji," Empress Dowager Gongci looked at Fuji with sharp eyes, "Who are the two Manchu and Han Commanders of the Metropolitan Procuratorate now?" [Note (1)]

"Back to the Empress Dowager," Fu Ji replied with a bowed head, "the current full member of the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court is Cheng Gang, and the Han member is Shen Qi. ”

"Oh," Empress Dowager Gongci nodded, "Shen Qi is a Jinshi in the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, and he is over seventy years old this year, right?" ”

"Yes," replied Fu Ji, "I am seventy-three this year, and I have been plagued by foot diseases these days, and many of the official affairs in the yamen cannot be handled in person. ”

"How old is it," the Empress Dowager Gongci sighed lightly, "Cheng Gang, his prestige is still shallow, and he doesn't dare to offend Wang Zaiquan of Dingjun, so he is attacked by those imperial historians under the Imperial Procuratorate everywhere, and arbitrarily slanders Zhongliang!" ”

The last sentence of her suddenly turned high, which made Su Xiaoliu couldn't help but be surprised, he thought that this white-haired, amiable Queen Mother was just a confused old lady who believed in the art of immortality, but he didn't expect that she would have a terrifying aura when she launched Weilai, so his impression of this Queen Mother in his heart increased by several levels.

"The Queen Mother is angry," Fu Ji knew that the Queen Mother's anger was directed at Wan Chao to arrest Xue Jingyi, so he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him, "Xue Daochang's matter is probably a misunderstanding, the people ask for immortals and pray for rain, which is a common thing, and Yu Shi Wan Chao has probably handled a lot of cases of bandits, so he is too sensitive to things like praying for rain!" ”

Empress Dowager Gongci nodded, and did not dwell on this topic anymore, but turned to Su Xiaoliu and asked, "Su Liu, I heard that someone was going to assassinate you early this morning, what happened?" ”

Su Xiaoliu didn't expect her to suddenly ask a question to herself, so she was stunned and hurriedly replied: "Back to the Queen Mother, I don't know what's going on, fortunately, there are six princesses to save me today, otherwise my life would have been gone a long time ago!" With that, he raised his eyes and glanced at Yue Ling.

Yue Ling smiled proudly, and the step on her head shook lightly a few times, looking extremely playful.

"The emperor is not in the capital," the Empress Dowager Gongci said slowly, "Your Ama and Prince Zheng Wuer Gonga have just passed away, and all these forces have come to surround Prince Zheng's mansion, it seems that this Prince Zheng's iron hat is very popular!" ”

At this time, the eunuch came to report: "Empress Dowager, Wang Yi of the county is asking to see you outside!" ”

"Let him in!" Empress Dowager Gongci turned her head to the palace maids beside her and said, "You all go out, I have a few important words to say to them." Xiuyin left the waiter! ”

So the palace maids rushed out, walked to the door of the wing, and met the king of the county who had just come in, so they saluted him again, and then withdrew, and closed the door of the wing.

[Netizen]: Closing the door so tightly, is this going to be called a secret thing?

[Netizen]: Could it be that the Queen Mother wants to pamper the "face" and let everyone watch?

[Netizen]: Haha, leaving so many people in the house, not only to watch, but also to shout and cheer!

[Netizen]: You are all extremely dirty!

At this time, there were only seven people in the house, including the Empress Dowager Gongci, Wang Yicheng of the county, Princess Yueling of Shouen, the left deputy Yushi Fuji, Xue Jingyi, Su Xiaoliu and Xiuyin, and the Empress Dowager Gongci's eyes swept from the faces of everyone one by one, and then said: "Seeing you here today, it is really a last resort, there are many eyes and ears in the palace, and many things have not been conveyed, so some things have to be explained to you here!" Remember, what you say today must be kept secret! ”

Led by the king of the county, everyone claimed to be so.

"Since the Opium Beacon," Empress Dowager Gongci said with emotion, "because the court decided that the war was caused by Lin Zexu, the ministers of the main war faction were deposed one after another. In the center of the inner court, since the hanged of the scholar Wang Ding, although there is an elderly bachelor Pan Shien who is still on an errand in the military aircraft, the rest of the Han officials are not powerful. As a result, the imperial court is now controlled by the clan party of Dingjun Wang Zaiquan and the Manchu official faction headed by the scholar Mu Zhang'a, and officials at all levels of the court have thrown themselves into these two factions. ”

"What the old ancestor said is," said Wang Yi of the county, "In order to be promoted, many new officials only know how to take refuge in these two factions, but they don't know that there is a court!" ”

"The former Zuodu Yushi Wenqing," Empress Dowager Gongci took the hot tea handed by Xiuyin, took a sip, and continued, "It has nothing to do with these two factions, but they were sent to Sichuan and Shu through a case; The Zongren Mansion was originally led by Prince Zheng, and all the ministers of the clan still regarded Prince Zheng as the patriarch of the sect, but they didn't want to die of illness today. Now, the position of the next Prince Zheng has become the spearhead of these two factions, so it is not surprising that someone sent a killer to assassinate Su Liu! ”

"Wow, no wonder I feel like I've fallen into a whirlpool after wearing it back," Su Xiaoliu's heart tightened, "It turns out that there are so many insiders in this!" ”

[Netizen]: It seems that this Queen Mother has an inside story to break the news!

According to the system of the Qing Dynasty, for this position, two members of the Manchu and Han were set up, so the "General Constitution" was held by the Manchu and Han officials.