Outside the dormitory, the weather was freezing and the morning fog was filled.

Zhou An tidied up his somewhat wrinkled clothes, pushed the door and walked out of the dormitory, but he stopped on the steps and looked at it with his hands down.

Because it was not yet time for the changing of the guard, the two little eunuchs who were on duty last night were standing on both sides of the dormitory door.

Zhou An looked solemn, took a deep breath, then turned around and looked at the two little eunuchs, his eyes swept back and forth, but he didn't speak. When the two little eunuchs saw Zhou An looking at him, they were a little nervous.

"Steward." They hung their heads and greeted respectfully, but they didn't know what to say.

Zhou An is not the chief of the inner department at present, but he can still afford this general manager, after all, there is more than one general manager in the inner hall, and the chief manager is not an official title, such as Kang Longji, his official official title is the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, he is the chief administrator, because he has enough power and holds the highest power of the twenty-four yamen of the inner court.

And Zhou An is already taking over these rights.

Zhou An tilted his head to look at them, and then walked to the little eunuch on the right, he reached out to tidy up the collar of the little eunuch, and gently patted him on the shoulder, before he said lightly: "You have been outside all night, and you have worked hard." ”

said it was hard work, but Zhou An's tone didn't look like he was praising people.

The little eunuch, who was arranged by Zhou An's collar, knelt directly on the ground in fright, and said with a little nervousness: "Chief, manager, the little one promises not to talk nonsense, and will never ......"

The other little eunuch also knelt down in fright.

"Yes, yes, we don't talk nonsense, we will spare our lives."

"What is there to talk about?" Zhou An's tone when he said this was a bit like talking to himself.

After that, Zhou An took his hands and left.

Zhou An didn't say it thoroughly.

But they all understood what Zhou An meant, they were all smart people, and it was impossible for those who were not smart to get mixed up with the errand of night duty for the empress.

Although Zhou An has a clear conscience, he really has nothing to do with the empress.

However, he didn't want any rumors related to it in the palace.

If it really happens, it's really going to die!

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When the sky was bright, the Manchu Dynasty entered the palace and went to court.

In this morning today, because of the mutiny and rebellion of the Baijiang Army, the empress was furious, angrily scolding the ministers for being a group of waste, and even Wu Xukuan scolded it in person, and the empress was rare to be so "presumptuous", she adopted Zhou An's opinion, and even behaved even more crazy.

The empress seems to have really been forced to the end of her rope, so she is "crazy".

But the more this is the case, the more no one dares to touch her brow at this time.

Wu Xukuan didn't dare.

Because they are afraid that the empress will make extreme moves under the imbalance of mentality, if the empress takes the initiative to break the net with Wu Xukuan, although the empress herself will be finished, but Wu Xukuan will not have a good time, and may even die together.

Wu Xukuan has been planning a rebellion for many years, and now he has ushered in the best situation, Kang Longji is going to die, more troops are going to the capital, Prince Ning is also on the way to Beijing, all aspects are developing in a good direction, Wu Xukuan is impossible to ruin such a situation, he doesn't want to stimulate the empress to go to extremes, so this is early today, he is very tolerant.

Except for the dispute between Wu Xukuan and the empress on the matter of troop transfer, Wu Xukuan has no opinion on other matters.

The empress even dismissed several officials from the household department and the military department in the court, and Wu Xukuan had no opinion.

This seems to be the Emperor Shenzhao since he ascended the throne, the most hardened early dynasty, there has never been such a situation before, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military was scolded by the empress did not dare to speak, although some courtiers looked at the empress with strange eyes, that look, like looking at a clown who was already crazy at the end of the road, but they did not dare to speak.

In the hearts of some people, today's empress is indeed like a clown who has not been able to jump for a few days.

The more hysterical the empress was, the more joy they felt in their hearts.

If the empress had a solution, she would never have done so.

However, what they didn't know was that the empress really had a way, she just didn't want them to find out......

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Morning to the rear.

When the empress returned to the Qianyuan Palace, the old marshal Li Guangshan had already arrived, that is, when the empress went to court, Zhou An arranged for the old marshal to enter the palace secretly, in order not to leak the news as much as possible, Zhou An even asked the old marshal to change into the armor of the Shence Army soldiers, and also brought a helmet, which was also very in line with his temperament.

This was the first meeting between the empress and Li Guangshan.

But the two are not strange.

After seeing the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, the empress gave Li Guangshan a seat, and Li Guangshan also corrected his position as a courtier, and did not despise the young empress.

The two cut straight to the point.

Zhou An and Kang Longji are naturally also there, discussing the matter of dealing with the traitorous party together, and the most difficult thing at present is the matter of the Baijiang Army, so naturally they will discuss this first.

Before the empress came back, Zhou An had already told Li Guangshan about the situation on the side of the Baijiang army.

Li Guangshan was mentally prepared, and directly agreed to Zhou An's proposal.

He wanted to personally go out and secretly leave Beijing to rebel against the Baijiang army, which had already rebelled. Li Guangshan recognized the feasibility of this matter, however, he felt that if he was alone, it would still be a little troublesome, he needed some manpower, and named a few important people!

For example, the former chief general of the Baijiang Army, Niu Jinsheng!

Niu Jinsheng stepped down as the commander-in-chief of the Baijiang Army six years ago, and the reasons for his resignation were very complicated, related to factional struggles, related to his own exhaustion and discouragement, and related to injuries and age, but these are all secondary, mainly because Niu Jinsheng was not Wu Xukuan's cronies, Wu Xukuan wanted to win him over, but it didn't work, so he was brought down.

Niu Jinsheng was 57 years old when he stepped down from his post as commander-in-chief of the Baijiang Army, but this year, he is already in his 60s.

Twenty years ago, before Li Guangshan returned to seclusion, Niu Jinsheng was his cronies and generals, and Niu Jinsheng had never been attached to Wu Xukuan, so he was related to Li Guangshan.

It is precisely because Li Guangshan does not stand in line and stays out of everything that many of his former generals are also like this. At present, most of the generals who "follow" Li Guangshan and do not stand in line have retired, after all, most of them have also reached their age, and some have not retired, and in the system of the Zhongzhou Army, they also belong to the marginal people.

Li Guangshan believes in Niu Jinsheng's personality, and believes in Niu Jinsheng's role!

After all, Niu Jinsheng was once the chief general of the Baijiang Army, and he has only retired for six years, and he has many cronies in the Baijiang Army, and his influence, coupled with Li Guangshan's influence, as long as the two of them appear together, the rebellion is basically half!

The secret council lasted from the morning until the afternoon.

After all the details were discussed, Li Guangshan secretly left the palace again, and the rest of the things were enough for him to do by himself, he had to visit a few of his cronies and generals who had already retired from Zhishi, and in terms of his strength in the Tiangang Realm, there was no need for any special arrangements, and he could go directly and secretly to meet people.

After Zhou An finished the secret discussion, he went directly back to Ning'an Yuan of Qianli Palace.

Normally, if he had nothing else to do in the afternoon, he would have to lead the group of alchemists to refine the Broken Pill together.

But Zhou An didn't go.

Because he wants to give himself alchemy.

Those two pills, one is used to break the realm, and the other is to make him grow, he was going to start refining last night, but he was called by the empress, and now that he finally has time, he naturally has to hurry up.