On Chinese New Year's Eve, Qi Chenjing in the imperial mausoleum was not alone. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Mencius Han, who was training in Tiantai Mountain, returned.

Qi Chenjing, Meng Zihan, and Chen Kexuan sat at a table in the inner courtyard.

Because he wanted to create the illusion that Kang Yan had been recuperating, the banquet was placed in Kang Yan's courtyard.

Qi Chenjing was a little absent-minded, he was thinking about Kang Yan's mother and son in the capital.

"What's the news from the capital?" After drinking the wine he was holding in his hand, he asked Mencius Han casually.

Mencius was stunned.

Qi Chenjing reacted, he has been training in Tiantai Mountain, and he only came back today, where does he know about the affairs of the capital.

His heart was a little unhappy for a while.

After the banquet was dispersed, he called Mencius Han to go to the study in the outer courtyard.

Lao Jiang was wandering back and forth at the door of the study, and when he saw the two of them coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and lowered his voice, "Lord Wang, there is a letter from Jingli." ”

Qi Chenjing's eyebrows moved, and he motioned for him to come into the study to speak.

Lao Jiang handed the note in his hand to Qi Chenjing, "I just received the flying pigeon biography from the capital." ”

The note was very short, only two lines, "Madame, everything is fine, the queen gave birth to a princess, and died in childbirth." ”

Seeing the first line of words, Qi Chenjing's expression relaxed a lot, Kang Yan has been gone for six days, and his heart has been hanging, so he has never let go, for fear that there will be a mistake on the road between their mother and son.

When he saw the second line of words, Qi Chenjing's brows furrowed tightly.

He didn't have a deep impression of the queen, he just thought that she was a cowardly woman.

What surprised him was that the queen gave birth to a princess!

remembered the rumor that Chen Yikang told him that the eldest princess of Fuyun had been arranged in the capital a long time ago, when he knew the news, he asked rhetorically, what if the queen gave birth to a prince?

Chen Yikang didn't say anything, only said that the eldest princess of Fuyun seemed to be in her chest.

Now that I think about it, it should be the eldest princess who secretly made some arrangements.

No matter what the arrangement, the queen gave birth to a princess, which is a good thing for him at present.

I think there will be new arrangements on the side of the eldest princess of Fuyun, and there will be action after the year.

"Isn't there any news from Hu Da?" Qi Chenjing's mind turned away and asked Hu Da, who hadn't sent back news for a month.

Every time he asked before, Lao Jiang shook his head.

Lao Jiang didn't shake his head this time, "The news came back in the second half of the day, saying that two old people from the year had been found, and they were trying to pry open their mouths, but the progress was not very smooth." ”

There are few people who know about the old things of 20 years ago, and it is estimated that there are even fewer people who know about and survive.

It takes a lot of work to find the survivors and get them to speak.

Qi Chenjing remembered that Kang Yan reminded him before leaving that he could consider starting with Sun Zhong, and after thinking about it for a moment, he instructed Lao Jiang, "Send a message to Hu Da and let them keep an eye on Sun Zhong to see if they can find a breakthrough." ”

Lao Jiang understood what he meant, turned around and went out.

Only Mencius and Qi Chenjing were left in the room.

Qi Chenjing rubbed his eyebrows, "If we want to come to the capital within half a year, what do you think I have a chance of winning?" ”

This is the first time that Qi Chenjing and Meng Zihan have clearly proposed to send troops to the capital.

Whether it was training in the mountains of the mall before, or training in the Tiantai Mountains now, Qi Chenjing instructed Meng Zihan to gather the soldiers according to his ideas and practice the formation, and Meng Zihan only needed to report to him regularly on the training of the soldiers.

Mencius was not surprised by his words.

In his heart, he always thought that Qi Chenjing was not a thing in the pool, and when he was willing to follow Qi Chenjing, he decided that Qi Chenjing was a person with a big mind and big ambitions.

Qi Chenjing is a far-sighted person!

So this King An, he can't do it for too long.

From the moment he began to train for Qi Chenjing, he had a day in his heart to confront the imperial court sooner or later, but it was only a matter of time.

Therefore, he was very strict and cautious when he trained his troops, for fear that one day, Qi Chenjing would be in need, and they would not be able to meet Qi Chenjing's requirements.

Meng Zihan stared at the candlestick on the table, the flames on it kept jumping, and he calculated the current situation of the soldiers in his heart before answering, "Counting all the people in Tiantai Mountain and Shangcheng Mountain, we have 30,000 horses in our hands, and I have a number of soldiers I trained, not to mention that one is ten, one is not a problem to top two or three, and it is not a problem for the 5,000 Janissaries in the capital, 5,000 Xiao Guards, 30,000 horses in the Jingdong Battalion, and 20,000 in the Jingxi Battalion, and our 30,000 ......words to the 60,000 words."

He pondered and gave a more cautious answer, "...... Let's grasp it. ”

Only 30% sure? Qi Chenjing's heart sank.

This is only the guards of the capital, if there is a war, there must be garrisons in other places, so it is estimated that only one percent is sure.

Qi Chenjing took out a map from the bookshelf and unfolded it, carefully examining the defense near the capital.

Meng Zihan sighed, "The five thousand Praetorian Guards guarding the inner city, the five thousand Xiao Guards are not to be feared, they are very loose in their training on weekdays, and most of them are children of the family, they are weak and can't help the wind, and they can't become the climate, but the Jingdong Battalion under the jurisdiction of Pingzhang Hou Li Wen is said to be brave and good at fighting, and the soldiers of the Jingxi Battalion are not vegetarians." ”

Qi Chenjing's eyes fell on the two places on the map: Jingdong Daying and Jingxi Daying.

The two large camps are entrenched outside the east and west gates of the capital, like two lions guarding the capital.

The Jingdong battalion is under the jurisdiction of Li Wen, who himself climbed up by military exploits, and most of the soldiers in the Jingdong battalion under him have followed the Li family in northern Xinjiang.

The soldiers who have killed the enemy on the battlefield with real swords and guns and the Praetorian Guards who are used to enjoying the prosperity and wealth of the capital, of course, the Xiao Guards cannot be compared.

The Jingxi camp is under the control of the imperial concubine's maiden family, Kangle Hou Wang, and the leader is the imperial concubine's eldest uncle, Kangle Hou Wang Changyun.

"The Wang family was very arrogant before, but since the death of the great prince, the Wang family has been depressed a lot recently." Qi Chenjing's hand rubbed in the place where the camp in western Beijing was located.

The eldest prince was the only prince under the emperor's knees before, and he was the eldest son of the emperor who was most likely to win the throne in the future.

Later, the eldest prince died, the imperial concubine went crazy, and the Wang family had no capital to rely on, so they naturally began to be a man with their tails between their legs.

"Find someone familiar with the army to investigate Li Wen and Wang Changyun, and this king must be clear about their military habits and their respective weaknesses."

Qi Chenjing stared at the map for a long time before instructing Mencius Han.

When you always know that you know your opponent, you can know what to do next.

His current strength is not enough, and he can only rely on outwitting.

"Also, recently, you've been staying in Tiantai Town a lot, help me keep an eye out for which of these garrison generals are really available."

The two discussed, but the night was getting deeper and deeper, and there were occasionally a few firecrackers outside the window, crackling, far or near, sending away the old year, and the new year was accompanied by snowflakes, kicking off a new prelude.

This New Year is very boring and even unsatisfactory for many people.

The emperor in the palace is not in the mood, the queen is still in the mood, the palace is not good to hold a banquet, even on the morning of the first day of the new year, the internal and external women only went to cry to the queen after worshipping the queen mother.

The emperor also pretended to be extremely sad, remembering that his prince had become a princess, and the depression in his heart would not be anywhere, where would he be in any mood to celebrate the New Year.

The emperor was unhappy, and he had to mourn for the queen, and the dignitaries in the capital could not have a banquet, but just met and congratulated each other on a good New Year, which was a lot less interesting for many people.

Kang Yan didn't think about it so much, she kept the New Year with Kang Shaofan and Su Yuhuan, and then she slept beautifully with Brother Tan.

Although she misses Qi Chenjing and can't reunite with him, with Brother Tan by her side, Kang Yan's heart feels a lot happier.

On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the family paid New Year's greetings to each other, Kang Shaofan and Su Yuhuan personally wrapped a big red envelope for Brother Tan before smiling and holding Brother Tan to go outside to accept the New Year's greetings from the next people.

Although you can't celebrate the New Year in a big way, you still have to go out and visit.

Kang Shaofan and Su Yuhuan went to the eldest princess of Fuyun early to pay New Year's greetings, and Kang Yan hugged Brother Tan and the two of them in the yard to watch the girls sweep the snow.

Last night, it snowed all night, and when I woke up in the morning, the snow that filled the yard reflected the whole yard a little brighter.

There are not many people waiting in the house, except for a few guards, Mama Zhang, Yao Huang, and Lotus Leaf They did it together, Kang Yan hugged Brother Tan and appeared under the corridor, wrapped Brother Tan with a thick wool cloak, and hugged him to watch the snow.

Brother Tan, who has only been a month and a half, can already stand steadily to watch the fresh scene for a while, but unfortunately he can only stand for a while, so he lowered his head and lay on Kang Yan's shoulder.

But the little guy is not discouraged, and he has to look up vigorously at the rest meeting, and Kang Yan can't help but smile.

Just as he was teasing Brother Tan, Chen San walked in, "Madam, Lao Wang has come to greet you for the New Year!" ”

For fear of attracting the attention of those who care, after entering Beijing, they uniformly changed their words to call Kang Yan Mrs.

When Qi Chenjing left Beijing, he left Lao Wang in the capital, and the news from the capital was summarized and sorted out by Lao Wang and passed to Qi Chenjing.

Kang Yan took Brother Tan into the house and met Lao Wang in the hall.

"Are all the people who stay in the capital okay?" Kang Yan asked about the current situation of the people left behind in the capital.

Qi Chenjing left Lao Wang in the capital, mainly to let him pay attention to the movements of the capital, mainly the task of collecting news, the danger is not great, and what Lao Wang is best at is to peel off the cocoon in various complex news and find the most attention.

Those who remained in the capital were all assigned by Lao Wang.

"Mrs. Lao remembers, they are all very good, the subordinates came today, one is to pay New Year's greetings to Mrs., and the other is that there are some things, I want to return to Mrs. back then, and then I will do something, let Chen San inform my subordinates, and my subordinates are afraid of attracting the attention of others, so they will not come here after that."

Kang Yan nodded, and Qi Chenjing said that Lao Wang has always been cautious and thoughtful in his work.

"Madame must have known about the death of the queen, and her subordinates have already passed the book to the prince, but in the past two days, the subordinates have been pondering for a long time, and they always feel that the death of the queen mother may be strange."

Kang Yan looked at Lao Wang in surprise.

"The queen just gave birth to a princess, not a prince, but the emperor rewarded the Li family lavishly, although it seems that he thinks of the queen's mother, and has a deep affection, but his subordinates always feel that the reward is a little too much, and even faintly has a little appeasement, and then the Li family is newly promoted to Pingzhang Gong, but this time it is surprisingly low-key, which is not right."

Lao Wang considered the words and said, "Also, I heard that last night's Chinese New Year's Eve, several people in the palace of the Empress Niangniang who served the Niangniang died, saying that they wanted to follow the Niangniang and serve the Niangniang. ”

This is also a little too unusual, Daliang does not have a funeral regulation, even if it is a person who serves in the queen's palace, after the queen is buried, there will generally be a redistribution of the inner government to serve in the palace, and the palace maid is not required to be martyred.

But the people who served her in the queen's palace died several times in a row.

It's just one or two, is it true that everyone has a deep affection for the queen?

"The more my subordinates think about it, the more I feel that it is wrong, but these are all speculations of my subordinates, and it is not good to explain it to the prince in the letter, so I want to ask Mrs. to show it, do we want to send someone to investigate secretly?"

Kang Yan admired Lao Wang even more in her heart at this moment.

She remembered last night's Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Yikang was not at ease, came to accompany them for the night, and once mentioned that the cause of the death of the queen mother was not just a difficult birth, and Kang Yan felt a chill in her back at that time.

Lao Wang didn't have such a powerful eyeliner in the palace, and he could even deduce clues from the news he heard.

It's no wonder that Qi Chenjing trusts Lao Wang so much.

"This matter, my grandmother is already sending someone to investigate, and I will let Chen San tell you if I have news." Kang Yan told Lao Wang lest he send more people.

Lao Wang breathed a sigh of relief, he came to ask Kang Yan for a gesture to ask if he could let the eldest princess send someone to investigate.

With his manpower, it was a bit difficult to investigate.

The eldest princess of Fuyun is different, her people in the palace must be more powerful than his.

The people who have the eldest princess Fuyun came forward, and I believe that they will get the news soon.

"One more thing, my subordinates have noticed that there seems to be some abnormalities in Tongzhou recently."

Tongzhou? Abnormal movement?

Kang Yeon's heart jumped, "What kind of abnormality?" ”

Lao Wang's face was also a little puzzled, "Probably in the winter moon, the subordinates found that the emperor had sent several waves of people out of Beijing, and the subordinates paid attention to it at that time, and found that these people went to Tongzhou, and after these people went to Tongzhou, they didn't do anything, just planted near a few villages, but they didn't do anything, as if they were just investigating something." ”

"The subordinates thought that the emperor ordered these people to handle some cases or check whom, and they didn't care too much, so they left two people to keep an eye on, but the subordinates received news two days ago, saying that half of those people suddenly disappeared, and they don't know where they went?"

Kang Yeon's face changed.

Investigation? Vanish into thin air?

Kang Yan instinctively remembered the Zhuangzi she secretly purchased in Tongzhou, could it have been discovered?

"Let people keep an eye on those people first, don't act rashly," Kang Yan quickly thought in her heart, and called Chen San in.

"You quietly go and invite the sixth cousin!"

It's more reassuring to let Chen Yikang go. (To be continued.) )