On the afternoon of the 27th day of the winter month, the news that Kang Longji was in poor health spread far and wide.

And almost at the same time, the Dongqian Inner Court also began to secretly purchase a large number of precious medicinal materials, although it was a secret, but this kind of thing could not be concealed from people at all, after all, the Inner Court had to collect medicine from the people, which involved too many people and too much money, and it was impossible to hide it, in fact, it was not intended to hide it.

The so-called secret collection of medicine is just pretending to be very secret.

In the next few days, the news spread completely, and all kinds of gossip came into being.

Even Zhou An's appointment as the supervisor of the Tiance Army has a reasonable explanation.

In the rumors, the reason why Zhou An was appointed as the supervisor of the Tiance Army was due to Kang Longji's physical condition, precisely because Kang Longji was going to die, he might not survive this winter, the empress was panicked, she was preparing for Kang Longji's death, in order to better control the army, and hold all the power in her hands, so she appointed Zhou An as the supervisor of the Tiance Army.

Everything is developing as Zhou An envisioned.

And in the past few days, Zhou An has not been idle, and he has been busy hitting the back of his head.

Every morning, he went to the Yamen of the Dongchang Factory to run errands under heavy escort, and he had already started some secret surveillance and investigation activities among the people of the Dongchang Factory, but he had not yet started the incident.

And as long as it is noon, Zhou An will inevitably return to the palace.

He not only wants to refine the pill, but also to train alchemists and teach them to refine the breaking pill.

For this reason, the empress secretly summoned a large number of alchemists into the palace, and after these alchemists entered the palace, they completely cut off contact with the outside world, so that the outside world could know that the empress was letting the alchemists alchemist, but they must not let people know what kind of pill they were refining.

All kinds of gossip point to Kang Longji, which is also the result of deliberately releasing rumors and deliberately guiding.

In fact, these alchemists don't know what kind of pill Zhou An taught them to refine.

After they entered the palace, even their sleeping and toilets were stared at, and after refining a furnace of pills, the pills would be taken away immediately, and it was naturally impossible for them to know the effect of refining the pills themselves.

The Broken Pill must not be passed out of the palace, not a single one.

In a blink of an eye, the time has reached the first day of the lunar month.

It was noon.

Qianwu Palace, Qianyuan Palace.

“…… If the saint is willing, the slave can be launched today, Wu Xukuan has now reined in, he is waiting for the death of the grandfather, so he will definitely give in, as long as they can be forced to go back to the court, the saint can return to the government, although he has to fight with Wu Xukuan, but it is also much better than the current situation. ”

Zhou An has been coming back from Dongchang for a while, and he is standing beside the empress, reporting to the empress about the arrangements in the past few days.

What Dongchang and Jinyiwei have to do now is not simply to catch corruption and crack down on the traitorous party, although Jinyiwei has not been idle in the past few days and has arrested many people, but they are all petty officials and officials.

The important ministers can't be caught easily, and if Wu Xukuan's real power henchmen are moved, Wu Xukuan will blow up.

The empress is now more and more confident in fighting against Wu Xukuan, and because of this, she has also become much more cautious, and she is unwilling to break the net with Wu Xukuan.

Therefore, when it comes to arresting people, we have to be flexible.

Wu Xukuan's henchmen and important ministers are going to move after all.

If all of them are arrested for the crime of corruption, then there will be no room for manoeuvre, either they will be convicted and beheaded, or they will be released and said that they have been arrested wrongly...... The former is too much, Wu Xukuan may blow up, and the latter may make the empress bear the stigma of fainting.

Therefore, whether or not people can be arrested in other names, and whether there is room for maneuver when people are arrested, is the key.

And there's one more thing that's very important.

That is, the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, nine times out of ten they do not go to the court.

The longer the time, the less communication between the empress and the court, the more the court and the empress will be separated from morality, and they will become more and more indifferent to the empress, and even cause a situation where only Wu Xukuan is known, but she is not known as the empress.

And! How many military affairs cannot be discussed, and it will become difficult to handle, and government decrees cannot be passed, which is not only extremely unfavorable to the empress, but also unfavorable to the world.

Therefore, they must be forced to return to court.

This matter is handled by the East Factory.

Zhou Anquan is in charge, and he has already combined the two things of arresting people and forcing them to go to the court into one thing, and he has been arranging for many days, waiting to be launched.

"Hmm...... Xiao Anzi, don't worry, since you said it's okay, then ...... tonight" The empress nodded after thinking about it.

"Yes!" Zhou An received the order.

"How's the pill going on?" The empress asked about the broken pill again.

"Back to the saints, those alchemists have made a lot of progress in recent days, and they have been able to reach the point of refining two furnaces and scrapping one furnace into one, but the quality of the elixirs they have refined needs to be improved." Zhou An said respectfully, "The current reserve of Breaking Pills is just over a hundred pills, and the precious medicinal materials required for alchemy have been exhausted in the inner mansion, and they need to be purchased from the people, and the servants have already sent someone to do it...... Holy Lord, this matter will not be urgent, and it will take a long time. ”

"Hmm." The Empress nodded.

She naturally understands that the matter of breaking Dan's army raising troops cannot be completed overnight.

The number of alchemists and the yield of alchemy are on the one hand, and the biggest constraint is still in the raw materials of alchemy.

Breaking the Dandan prescription in a few main medicines, all of them are precious medicinal materials, although there are a lot of them in the inner house, but they will soon be used up, which needs to be purchased from the people, which takes time, and this thing does not mean how much you want to buy, how many people will have, you need to contact, you need to communicate, and even need to investigate and search, so that you can buy it, the more you go back, the more time it takes to buy.

And because the inner court wants to buy a large number of several precious medicinal materials, the price of these medicinal materials will inevitably rise, which will also promote the cost of each furnace of Dan.

This matter is really not urgent.

"Xiao Anzi, can you have lunch?" The empress asked, and she raised her hand at the same time, closed her eyes, and rubbed the side of her forehead.

"Not yet." Zhou An replied.

When the empress put down her hand, Zhou An on the side took the initiative to reach out and help the empress press her head.

The empress still has a headache, the last time she took the super grade Nine Zhuan Da Dan, it was not much better, not that the effect of the pill was not good, but that the empress's headache now is not due to physical reasons, she is overly worried, which is caused by heart disease.

The empress still had her eyes closed, and Zhou An pressed her head, and she leaned back, seemingly feeling a lot more comfortable.

"I've already asked someone to prepare lunch, and since you haven't eaten it, let's stay and eat together, and after a while, Yunjing will ......come over too," the empress closed her eyes and said lightly.

"Yes." Zhou An responded.

The hall was silent.

Zhou An was pressing the empress's head, but the empress didn't speak, and Zhou An didn't say anything, so naturally no one spoke anymore.

After a while.

Bang Da Da ...... Bang Da Da ......

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly appeared.

It was still far away at first, but it was getting closer and closer, and it seemed to be coming straight to the Qianyuan Palace.

The empress opened her eyes suddenly.

How can there be a sound of horses' hooves?

It is forbidden to ride horses in the palace, who would dare to do this? Although Princess Yunjing was a little naughty, she only dared to ride a horse in her own palace, but she didn't dare to ride to Qianwu Palace.

The Qianwu Palace is heavily guarded, and who can ride a horse in?

"Who's riding a horse? Go show me!! The empress suddenly got up and shouted.

"Yes!" There was a cheer outside the door.

"Report !!" There were already shouts outside, getting closer.

"Eight hundred miles expedited! The Royal Gold Medal! Death to those who resist! Death to the rebels! Get out of the way! Report!!! ”

After a few breaths, the sound of horses' hooves arrived outside the gate of the Qianyuan Palace, but they were not stopped.

Crash!

The door of the Qianyuan Palace was opened suddenly, and there was already a group of old eunuchs with very high martial arts standing outside the door, they usually followed the empress, if the empress was in the East Warm Pavilion, they would be guarding in the wing room next to the East Warm Pavilion, if it was in the Qianyuan Palace, they would be in the side hall of the Qianyuan Palace.

And once there is chaos, they will be the first to appear.

Now they appeared, but they didn't stop the visitors, they just stood on both sides of the door, and opened the door of the Qianyuan Palace.

The person outside the door was wearing military armor, carrying an eight-pole dragon flag on his back, covered in dust and sand, his face was stiff and red, and his lips were chapped, as if he had come from a very far away.

He rode his horse and galloped to the door of the main hall, turned over and jumped off the horse, and knelt at the door of the main hall with a rolling wheel, his voice was extremely hoarse and panting like a cow and shouted: "Eight hundred miles of urgency, the saint, the border is urgent!" The Beirong Etulu Department raised 60,000 troops, broke through the Qishan Pass at night, and broke through the eighteen counties of the three prefectures in northern Xinjiang in a row...... Poof......"

After he finished speaking in a hurry, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell headlong, but he got up again, took out a letter from his bosom, and handed it forward with a trembling hand.