As soon as the two of them left, Liu Jin knew that Ma Yongcheng and the others were too busy to have fun and couldn't help anything, so he sent them to go everywhere to listen to the news, and he and Gao Feng hurried to the front of the Wenhua Palace. However, since they knew that the hundred officials in front of Wenhua Gate, if they really showed up in front of them, according to the radical morale of the Ming Dynasty, they might have been torn alive, and the two of them found an unobtrusive corner to look.

When he saw Li Rong and others come forward to take over the fold on behalf of the celebrant supervisor, and Wang Yue nodded and said that even if he fought to the death, he would send the fold to the imperial front, and the officials who had been kneeling for an hour under the hot sun only then supported each other to stand up one by one, even if the young and strong people were already crumbling, not to mention those who were already old like Han Wen. However, looking at these civil officials who were all wet and embarrassed, and looked at Dai Yi suddenly shook his body as if he was soft, and then someone shouted that Dai's father-in-law had a heat stroke, but Liu Jin and Gao Feng couldn't make the slightest joke.

It's really such a big momentum, if they can't pass this level, they will really be finished!

Liu Jin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, grabbed Gao Feng's hand and lowered his throat and said, "Father-in-law Gao, go back to the emperor quickly." Although you should bring it this time, but after all, you are the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, from being in charge of the East Palace Seal Bureau to the present, there is no merit and hard work, Li Rong They have to give you a little thin noodles. You must listen to what they say when you are around the emperor, I will go to Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong, the two of them have ideas more than others, one is in charge of the West Factory and the other is in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and they can be used at critical moments! ”

"Good, good!"

Seeing that Gao Feng was about to leave, Liu Jin suddenly remembered it, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed him again: "If they can't even take care of you, you must tear your face, you let people pass the word to the little guy Ruisheng next to the emperor should be able to help!" ”

After saying this, Liu Jin couldn't care about anything else, picked up the robe in front of him and ran away like a gust of wind. Although he is in his early fifties and younger than most of the older people in the palace, he is considered an old man when he is outside, and he does not sit on a stool under the sun, and when he arrives at the Qianming Gate, he is already out of breath. Standing in the shade and taking a breath, he beckoned a small fireman to come over, and learned that Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong had never returned, he took a bowl of water from someone and drank it up, but waved his hand and refused the eunuch who was in charge of the door to send someone to follow his kindness, and then walked out of the Qianming Gate quickly.

After leaving the Lingxing Gate and heading west, when he was about to reach the West Restaurant, Liu Jin almost collided with the person who came out of the diagonal room. was about to scold, but he saw clearly who the sweaty person was, and hurriedly shouted: "Lao Zhang, why are you back?" ”

Zhang Yong saw that it was Liu Jin, and immediately dragged the person to the side in a hurry, and saw that there was no one at noon under the scorching sun, and he said in a hoarse voice: "It's a bad thing, the Imperial Horse Supervisor Miao Gonggong is not even the little five hundred people who are stationed in the West Garden, and the little five hundred people who are stationed in the West Garden are also brought out, saying that it was the Beijing camp two days ago that the troops were trained there, and the government Miao was invited to assist there, but I hate that I have always been in the West Garden and didn't pay attention to this one, I just found out!" ”

"What!" Liu Jin suddenly only felt that a heart was in his throat, and he couldn't help but grab Zhang Yong's wrist with his backhand, "What about Lao Gu, did Lao Gu go to the West Factory?" ”

"It should be ・・・・・・ or, let's go to Xi'anmen to see the movement?"

The two of you, you look at me, and the last one is silent, and without saying a word, I hurriedly rushed straight to the direction of Xi'an Gate. When they got there, the two found that Gu Dayong was pacing back and forth in the shady place next to the coupon cave, and suddenly had a bad premonition at the same time, and immediately caught up with three steps and two steps. ..., "Old Gu, you are ......"

"I asked someone to call Zhong Hui here for questioning, but it's been almost half an hour, and it's only a few steps from Lingji Hutong to here, and there is not even a shadow!" Gu Dayong saw that Liu Jin and Zhang Yongju were pale, and he only felt that his throat was blocked for a while, and he asked for a long time, "Could it be that you are ...... there?"

Liu Jin gritted his teeth and said: "There are also one or two hundred people in the Wenhua Palace, not Li Rong, who exaggerated. ”

And Zhang Yong's face turned dark: "Gonggong Miao, who has the palm print of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, was ordered to take the five hundred people left behind by the Imperial Horse Supervisor to go out of the palace to the Beijing camp a few days ago, saying what kind of training ・・・・・・"

"Damn, if you dare to love others, you've already dug up a set for us to drill!"

Gu Da was impulsive, scolded his mother directly, and suddenly turned his head and walked east without saying a word.

Liu Jin and Zhang Yong were taken aback and hurriedly chased after them, and Zhang Yong asked angrily: "Hey, at this time, I am counting on your West Factory, what if you leave and someone over there comes?" They have never been in the palace, so aren't they waiting there in a hurry? ”

"Wait? I don't think people can come. Gu Da snorted coldly with a gloomy face, and when he saw that the two of them were stunned for a moment, he stopped, "Why do you think I didn't go out of the palace to Lingji Hutong to find someone by myself, but waited at Xi'an Gate?" I'm not lacking in heart, what kind of stinky shelf is put at this time, I'm afraid that it will be easy to go out of the palace and difficult to return to the palace! In this palace, others don't dare to touch us easily, but if something happens outside, my life may be given away lightly and skillfully! Everyone in the Imperial Horse Prison has thought of it, it makes no sense that no one in the West Factory cares, there must be something wrong there, otherwise Zhong Hui, who is notoriously slippery, would not have come in without a letter! ”

Realizing that the situation was suddenly sinister to this point, even though the three of them were all people who were not afraid of the sky and the earth on weekdays, they couldn't help but frown for a while. When he walked all the way to the West Flower Room, Zhang Yong couldn't help but sigh: "It would be nice if Xu Xun was in the capital!" He has always had a lot of ideas and a clever person. We are in the palace and he is outside the palace, this inside and outside are each other's horns, how could he suddenly let people calculate like this・・・・・・ fuck him, could it be that those bosses calculated to let him out of Beijing in the first place? ”

This analysis made Gu Dayong shudder, and Liu Jin's face suddenly became like the bottom of a pot, but he didn't say a word after all. When the three of them returned to Chengqian Palace all the way, they found that Gao Feng, Ma Yongcheng, Qiu Ju and others were all spinning in circles like headless flies under the scorching sun. At this moment, Liu Jin immediately rushed forward.

"Grandpa Gao, what's going on?"

Seeing that Gao Feng was depressed, Liu Jin suddenly became anxious and grabbed Ma Yongcheng again. Ma Yongcheng finally became younger and calmed down, and then said gloomily: "Before, Gonggong Li and the others came to see the emperor send Han Wen's old guy's recital, and then the emperor locked himself in the warm pavilion alone, and no one saw him, even the one who had just delivered lunch was blocked. It was only with great difficulty that Gonggong Gao heard some rumors from Ruisheng's mouth - the emperor seems to have cried......"

Did the emperor cry? Zhu Houzhao has been extremely rigid since he was a child, except for the time when Emperor Hongzhi was seriously ill and died, that is, when the Empress Dowager Zhou died in the previous dynasty, it was just a cry made with pepper noodles in a false story. When they heard this, even though Liu Jin and Zhang Yonggu Dayong had already planned for the worst, their hearts couldn't help but sink into the bottomless abyss.

At this moment, Zhu Houzhao, who had locked himself in the warm pavilion, was lying on the couch with his back to the sky, his eyes staring at the ceiling. Although Han Wen's recitals were written impassionedly, he was surprised by the momentum of the hundred officials, not the words, and the crying was his father, Emperor Hongzhi, not the current predicament. But what really made him stunned and dazed was the words that Wang Yue said in front of him. …,

"Your Majesty, the ministers hate the Eight Tigers to the bone, and they want to get rid of them quickly, if Your Majesty doesn't accept the advice, I am afraid that it will provoke a big change!"

Zhu Houzhao doesn't like the Four Books and Five Classics, but he doesn't read less history books and the like, especially when he and Wang Shouren were training in Xiyuan before, he has heard a lot of stories about the saints of this pilgrimage, and the one he paid the most attention to was his great-grandfather Yingzong. After the defeat of Emperor Yingzong and Wang Zhen's Tumu Fort, the first reaction of the ministers when they learned of this was to kill one of Wang Zhen's henchmen in public in the court.

You must know that it was in the Forbidden City, in the main hall!

In contrast, Emperor Yingzong has been on the throne for some years at that time, unlike him who has only been on the throne for more than a year... I only hate that he is actually confused because of a little thing, otherwise if he is as vigilant as before, how can he be forced to come to the door! As a last resort, he could only send Li Rong, Chen Kuan, and Wang Yue to the cabinet to discuss the matter with the ministers.

He suddenly wiped the corners of his eyes, and then shouted, "Someone! ”

Seeing that Ruisheng entered, Zhu Houzhao asked Ming, and learned that Liu Jin and the others were also back, and all the others were waiting under the sun, he couldn't help but shake his head in annoyance and said angrily: "Go and ask Liu Jin and Zhang Yonggu to use Gao Feng to come, and the others let them go back to rest, do you want to suffer from heat stroke under the sun?" ”

After a while, Latham led the four eunuchs into the house, but he quietly retreated. Zhu Houzhao saw the four people kneeling down with sad faces, and said that the crime deserved to die, he couldn't help but slam the handrail angrily and said: "If you ask for sin, swallow it back, I don't have time to listen to this at this time!" What is going on outside, you can tell me clearly! ”

The four of them didn't want Zhu Houzhao to scold them for being bloody, but asked directly about the outside, and looked at each other for a while and then lifted their spirits. Zhang Yongxian said that the eunuch Miao Kui led the troops out of the palace, and Gu Dayong said that he couldn't contact the West Factory, at this time, Liu Jin immediately cried and said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, look at this situation, someone wants to put a few of us to death, and ask the emperor to be the master......."

"Alright, there's no end!" Zhu Houzhao stopped Liu Jin in one gulp, lowered his eyelids for a while, and then said slowly, "In this way, there are only more than 500 people left in the palace of Qian Ning's government army, and as for the rest, even if my warrant is sent out, it will only make you bear a charge of overbearing... ・・・Don't howl here, hurry down and send someone to see how the celebrant is doing in the cabinet, those few are going to the cabinet to discuss what to do with you! Whether or not your heads can be saved depends on this! ”

When the faces of the four people retreated like ashes, Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists and slapped the couch on his body a few times, hating his inaction these days for a while.

Just when his eyelids were drooping and full of thoughts, he suddenly heard someone calling the emperor, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Rayson and Rayson. Before he could speak, Latham spoke.

"Your Majesty, there is a small thing that I don't know whether to say or not・・・・・・

"What's the matter? Hey, I'm numb to this bad news anyway, don't hide it! ”

"Before serving the emperor, the little one had been with Father-in-law Xiao for a while. At noon, news came in from outside, saying that it was the young master, no, it was Pingbeibo who had arrived in the capital. ”

"Ahh

Zhu Houzhao jumped up from the couch all of a sudden, and the distressed expression on his face just now was swept away. He didn't care about the demeanor of the emperor, so he pressed Ruisheng and sat down on the brocade pier on the side, and then asked intently, "Are you serious?" ”

"It should be taken seriously・・・・・・ it's the little one who really remembers the young master, so he has been using the emperor's name to let Gonggong Xiao ask someone to inquire outside, the little one should be damned!" Rayson suddenly left his seat and knelt down, knocked his head three times in a row, and said with a panicked face, "The little one knows that now that he has entered the palace, the old connections should be broken, but he can't help ...... it"...,

"It's okay, it's okay, it's good to miss the old love, if you follow me and forget the old master, then it's okay!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand magnanimously, and then said in a good mood, "Besides, it's not that you are seeking personal gain from your young master, it's just that I am using my excuse to inquire about the news...... If it weren't for your inquiry, I wouldn't have known that Xu Xun had returned to Beijing...... I don't know what he's doing, this kid has always had more ideas than me, so it's good for him to come back・・・・・・"

Ruisheng saw that the little emperor was really convinced, so he breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still worried in his heart. When he received a message that Xiao Jing had managed to send in, saying that Xu Xun had returned to the capital, he couldn't believe his ears, but how to tell the news to the emperor made him feel worried. Now seeing that Zhu Houzhao really didn't care about the news that Xu Xun had arrived in the capital at the juncture, he recited Amitabha Buddha a few times in his heart, and immediately followed Zhu Houzhao in a circle in the room, until Zhu Houzhao suddenly stopped and turned around, and he almost hit it directly.

"Latham, I want to go out of the palace, do you have a way?"

"Huh? But ・・・・・・ Emperor, the father-in-law of the celebrant will come back to report to you!" ”

"I don't care about this, I must go out of the palace! Looking at people's faces here, it's lifeless! ”

Hearing the little emperor suddenly say such a sentence without being shocked, Ruisheng was dumbfounded. However, thinking about Zhu Houzhao's treatment of him very well on weekdays, he heard and saw the current situation, and after hesitating for a long time, he turned his heart and whispered: "Back to the emperor, there is a way for the little one, but this method is very risky, and the emperor has to forgive the small capital crime first...

Although he had returned, Xu Xun had been living at Xiao Jing's house for two days in a row. First, the outside of the city is not as good as the inside of the city, he is not afraid that so many people will recognize him, and secondly, the eunuch who has been Xiao Jing's master of ceremonies for many years is now here, and the news in the palace is convenient and well-informed. Therefore, the matter of the hundred officials Fu Que writing to the Eight Tigers to punish them, everyone gathered at the Han Wen Mansion that night, and he had already received the news. And in the daytime of this day, the huge Fuque Shangshu suddenly spread throughout the city, and he ushered in a eunuch who was known as the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Bingbi, who was known as suffering from heat stroke.

Dai Yi came because Xiao Jing secretly sent a message, and when he saw Xu Xun at this moment, he almost didn't stare out of his eyes, but he said in a lost voice: "Why did you come back?" ”

"Why can't I come back? About Dai's father-in-law heard that I had just taken the tax eunuch of Shangxinheguan in Nanjing, and I had already left Nanjing for Beixinguan in Hangzhou, and I couldn't come back in a month or two, didn't I? ”

Seeing that Dai Yi was really dumbfounded, Xu Xun smiled and said: "Father-in-law Dai is also a person who has been in trouble in the sea, how can I fool you with this little trick?" If I hadn't hurried back all the way back in time, I was afraid that when I returned to the capital, it would have been a new day, and I would not have been able to turn the situation around even if I had great ability. ”

Dai Yi drove Li Rong back to Beijing with the people he sent to him before, so after returning to Beijing, he couldn't help but have some awkwardness with Li Rong, and the relationship between the two is still a little stiff until now. But the movements of the past few days made him gradually regret the tacit understanding between listening to Fu Rong's bewitchment and Xu Xun in Nanjing, if Liu Jin and others were all ambushed, even if Xu Xun was once a believer of the Son of Heaven, how could he be alone at that time? It wasn't until he saw the people who should have been in Nanjing sitting here alive that he felt that he was worrying about it.

It's not the first time he's learned this little fox's insidious cunning, so why is he still underestimating

"In that case, let's open the skylight and say something. Both inside and outside the palace city have already changed a group of guards and pro-army, these are all the henchmen of the Marquis of Wuding, etc., and all the bosses can command it. After all, the East Factory is more than the West Factory for decades, although Wang Yue is not the overseer of the East Factory, but he has been accumulating power for many years, and he has crossed Chen Kuan, and others dare not say anything. As for Jinyiwei, Ye Guang is sick again, and Li Yifeng is detained in the yamen, once these two can't be active, the others will naturally not dare to act rashly. …,

Then there is the eunuch Miao Kui, who is the palm seal of the imperial horse supervisor, who was detained in the Beijing camp, saying that he was asked to guide the training of the troops, but everyone knows that it is not the same thing. Therefore, this is an opportunity that is easy to grasp up and down, and the Eight Tigers must be eliminated. ”

Hearing Dai Yi say this in one breath, Xu Xun laughed and said, "It was said that the Eight Tigers were removed, but the drunkard didn't mean to be in the bar?" After the emperor ascended the throne, there were too many unexpected moves, whether it was abolishing the early dynasty, or sending heavy troops to fight the Tartars, or under the pretext of cleaning up the prison, he overturned the old imperial examination case of Cheng Minzheng in disguise, and forced Min Zhishi to ...... Just as Han Shangshu said in his splendid article, 'In recent years, the government has been in trouble, and the order is improper, so the elimination of the Eight Tigers is a small matter, and the abolition of chaotic politics is a big matter. ”

Dai Yi knew that Xu Xun had always been smart, so he naturally couldn't hide this from him, so he immediately bowed his head lightly and said: "That's right, that's right・・・・・・ cutting off the Eight Tigers is just forcing the emperor to make a statement, as long as this one is done, the others can be solved." At this time, the emperor has already ordered the celebrant Li Gonggong Chen Gonggong and Wang Gonggong to go to the cabinet to discuss together, but I am afraid that there will be results tonight or tomorrow. Even if Uncle has great ability, if he can't make achievements before this, then the overall situation has already been decided! ”

"I know, that's why I invited my father-in-law to come...... I won't be able to enter the palace for a while, so I asked my father-in-law to meet Liu Jin and they sent a letter saying that I was back. Seeing that Dai Yi was taken aback, he immediately glanced at Xiao Jing with a strange expression, Xu Xun smiled and said, "Of course, it is also possible to let Gong Gong Xiao send a letter to the palace, but it is not as good as Gong Dai being a close person of the first emperor when he was dying, and this appearance is like a defection, which can naturally calm their hearts." Liu Jin and the others, some of them are wise, some are smart, some are cunning, and they know that there is me in the outside world, and they will inevitably have their own methods inside. ”

Dai Yi never expected that Xu Xun deliberately invited himself out through Xiao Jing, and he actually forced himself to stand in line at this critical juncture. His face changed for a while, and he couldn't help but say ruthlessly: "Uncle is not afraid that I will sell you backhand when I walk out of this door?" Although you are not among the Eight Tigers, there are many people in the court who hate you to the bone. ”

"Father-in-law Dai said so, of course he won't take this road!" Xu Xun blinked with a smile, and then said slowly, "The garrison of the government army outside the city is really nothing, but if I really didn't have any confidence, I wouldn't stay here with a bang." I learned that as soon as I came back, I let the two sons and brothers, who had just been promoted to command the affairs of the government army, go to the 12th regiment camp and the Beijing camp. Xu Yanche and Qi Jiliang are the second sons of the princess of the country, the eldest son of the eldest princess, and if the father-in-law of the imperial horse supervisor Miao can get out, it is difficult to say what the matter will be. ”

"You ......"

"Okay, good, it's really a hero from ancient times!"

Although Dai Yi didn't believe that those two noble sons who were just gentlemen could do such a big thing, since Xu Xun said so, he was sure that this matter could be done. After he took a deep breath, he arched his hand and turned to leave, and as soon as he left, Xu Xun let out a long sigh of relief, and glanced sideways at Xiao Jing, who had not said a word from beginning to end.

"Gonggong Xiao's unfathomable posture of sitting firmly on Mount Tai is really flawless!"

"Aren't you going to put on a show? It's ridiculous that Lao Dai didn't see it at all, and he actually bluffed you! ”

Hearing Xiao Jing say this, Xu Xun didn't think it was wrong, and after arching his hand, he smiled and said: "Since Grandpa Dai has returned to the palace, it is inconvenient for me to stay here for a long time, so I will leave・・・・・・ by the way, Grandpa Xiao also please take more care of Bohu, this kid is not afraid of heaven and earth, he dares to go to Hanlin Academy to find Xu Zhenqing with a pair of mustaches, I really can't take him!" ”

"People say that the ignorant are fearless, but we see him as selfless and fearless. Don't look at the faces of those old men, don't be famous, I'm afraid of whom! Therefore, things gather like and people are grouped! He was easy there, and he was framed for cheating back then, and there were many sympathies among Shilin. It's just that when you go to the Beijing camp and the 12th regiment camp, be careful, even the British Duke and the Baoguo Duke are just in the name of winning the general, and they can't be easily won there! ”

"It's okay, didn't Du Jin pass the note? said that Gonggong Li and the others didn't want things to be too big, and Guoyong Ying was there, but he just transferred a few servants to watch, and I started from here! ”

Xiao Jing nodded, replied to Xu Xun's salute, and saw that he just strode away and disappeared outside the door, and the relaxed look on his face gradually disappeared.

This day and night, I'm afraid it will be the most unpeaceful day and night since Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne!

PS: It's more troublesome to separate, so it's just two in one...... Clear