The queen mother's phoenix boat left Linqing County and went all the way north to Jingshi, not to mention.

Yan Ben took Li Zhong, and the night fast boat rushed to Dehua Town to change the fast horse all the way back to the capital. When he arrived in the capital, Yan Ben did not hesitate at all, and immediately entered the palace to see Emperor Yude, and also told Li Zhong about it, as well as the matter of the Empress Dowager's decree, and exchanged the phoenix talisman for the phoenix talisman to prove that what Yan Ben said was true.

Emperor Yude summoned Li Zhong overnight, and sorted out the ins and outs of the matter again, and secretly ordered the Ministry of Officials, the Criminal Department, the Household Department, and even the Military Department to jointly investigate Lin Qing's affairs in conjunction with Dali Temple.

In less than three days, more than 1,000 large and small dossiers accumulated by various ministries about Lin Qing County over the years have been sorted out one by one, and I don't know if I don't know that Lin Qing's affairs are complicated, it can be said that Lin Qing has been a black nest for many years, pretending to receive food and salary for canal guards, river tyrants and river bandits, falsely reporting the disaster situation and repeatedly reporting the disaster relief funds from the treasury, buying and selling officials, etc., there is no problem with each file taken out separately, but after the ministries are summarized, they use the chronological axis to get a card, corruption, lazy government, official protection, hegemony, and careless human life!

Emperor Yude listened to Prime Minister Zuo's report on the affairs of Lin Qing County, and his angry beard was about to stand up, Lin Qing's matter could even be pushed forward by two dynasties, that is, it could be pushed to the generation of Emperor Yude's grandfather, no wonder the first emperor couldn't let go of his mind before his death It was Lin Qing's business. No wonder the Queen Mother must ask someone to come on board the ship to observe the people's situation at the shore of Lin Qing. One case after another, one by one, all of them are shocking.

Emperor Yude immediately appointed Yan Ben as the first Qincha, went to Linqing County to make an unannounced investigation, and three months later, he appointed Zuo Cheng as the personal Qincha, with the investigation of the Li Zhong clan being wrongfully conspired against the case as the lead, setting off a monstrous case in Linqing County and even Jidong Province.

This monstrous case that shocked the government and the opposition involved 206 officials, large and small, involving thousands of people, including the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Criminal Department, the Ministry of War, and many other extremely officials, because the scope of involvement was too wide, if all of them were uprooted, it would shake the foundation of Great Xia, and in the end, Emperor Yude could only choose to dispose of the 47 officials who committed the most heinous crimes, as well as more than 400 people involved in the case, to close the case.

The descendants of the master who framed the Li Zhong family for the crime of treason were naturally on the execution list, but it was more severe than the execution, and Emperor Yude personally hooked and executed it immediately in Linqing County to set an example. For the other people involved in the case, Emperor Yude was forced to have no choice but to adopt the method of "ants gnawing elephants" to weaken the dividing forces little by little in the days to come, and finally deal with them one by one.

In this "Lin Qing Giant Case" that shocked the government and the opposition, the biological mother of the third prince, the Qin family of Concubine Qing's mother, was also involved. Fortunately, Concubine Qing is upright, diligent, thrifty, and virtuous, and has never been involved. But since then, the three princes have withdrawn from the competition for the prince, because the prince without the support of the maternal family is like a tree without a source of water and roots, unable to support political wrestling.

After the "Lin Qing Giant Case", Li Zhong's family was pardoned for exile and beheading, and the local reputation was restored.

Lin Qing's case has also come to an end, so I won't say much.

The queen mother's phoenix boat traveled on the canal for another five or six days, and now Xing'er has become a little red man in front of the queen mother, and the queen mother treats her like a granddaughter, and personally teaches Xing'er to play the qin.

The Queen Mother is a clear-eyed person, since Xing'er played the piano in front of her for the first time, she has already seen that Xing'er's technique of stroking the piano is by no means the technique of a small family, and there is a slight wind of the Longwang clan between her fingers, which makes the Queen Mother even more blue-eyed to Xing'er. Of course, under the guidance of the Queen Mother, Xing'er's piano skills soared, and she learned a new song in three or four days.

Liyue and Zhou Liang's calculation was that Zhou Liang went to beg the Queen Mother and brought Xing'er back to the palace, but without waiting for Zhou Liang to plead, the Queen Mother instructed Liyue to stay with Xing'er as a companion female official. This made Zhou Liang and Liyue overjoyed. During the time when Xing'er didn't have to accompany the Queen Mother, Liyue paid close attention to the training and allocation of Xing'er's court etiquette, you must know that Zhou Liang and Liyue had great hopes for Xing'er.

Xing'er gradually found that she wanted to go to the capital to find Mrs. Weng gradually fell through, she was too young to distinguish Zhou Liang and Liyue to deal with her excuses, or because the Queen Mother was too fond of her, so that she experienced the warmth from the elders, Xing'er gradually adapted to the days by the Queen Mother's side, and Liyue and Zhou Liang did treat her well, which also gave her a little sense of security.

But what Xing'er didn't expect was that the time on the phoenix boat was probably the best time of her childhood, and after entering the palace, it was the real test of her life!

The phoenix boat probably went forward for another twelve or thirteen days, and finally arrived at the jurisdiction of the capital, at this time it was past the height of summer, and it was a little refreshing in the morning and evening.

On this day, the phoenix boat entered Jingdong's Dongzhou Wharf, and Liyue ordered Qiaoxin, Juanxin, Xiuxin and others to pack up all the fine and soft things a day in advance, and was ready to change ships. Because the river in the capital is narrow, the phoenix boat can no longer travel, so it is necessary to change boats.

As soon as the magnificent phoenix boat docked at the Dongzhou wharf, the Queen Mother Lafayette led a cadre of people and so on, and they were transferred to the imperial ship in the capital, and the personnel and materials were probably filled with more than a dozen imperial ships, in addition to the official ship of the Queen Mother and the people, there were seven or eight escort ships in Shuntianfu before and after opening and protecting, and the private boats encountered by the waterway were all avoided, and on both sides of the river were still the river patrol guards of the county government relay.

This is the first time Xing'er really came to the capital, in her little heart, there are endless fantasies and longings for the capital, because she has long heard Ruyu's mother and Granny Feng talk about the prosperity and grandeur of the capital, of course, the word capital is a long-awaited family affection for her.

After Xing'er changed ships, he was on the same boat with the Queen Mother Lafayette, and the Queen Mother may have been away from Beijing for too long.

The imperial ship traveled for more than half an hour, and Xing'er and the others saw a big city gate standing majestically from afar, majestic, and the city wall was even taller and stretching. Gao Xing'er is the first time to see such a tall city gate, this city gate is too high to describe compared to Xingxian, Xing'er sighed. The boat is closer again, between the city gate is written three big characters "Chaoyang Gate", this Chaoyang Gate inside and outside a total of two city gate buildings, Xing'er puzzled, asked the moon to know the two city gate buildings, a brick and stone structure is the arrow tower, heavily guarded, inside the carved beams and painted wood and stone structure is the main gate of Chaoyang Gate. The Imperial Ship also entered the moat channel here.

About two or three hundred meters north of Chaoyang Gate, that is, a water gate, the water gate is composed of three arched gates, which can pass through three ships at the same time, and there are usually heavy guards here, and the customs clearance flag issued by the Dongzhou Wharf at the bow of the ship can be smoothly walked, but Xing'er They are on the imperial ship, saving this process, or the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Shuntianfu have already done a good job of affairs.

The royal ship sailed into the water pass, there was darkness in front of him, Xing'er leaned on Qiaoxin's arms, quietly looked at the front of the boat, and after a while, a piece of light appeared in front of Xing'er's eyes, along with the light came the towering buildings on both sides of the river, restaurants, shops, ticket numbers, wine shops, bookstores, etc., etc., everything.

The people near the river, seeing the imperial ship sailing by, have flocked to both sides of the river to see the lively, Shuntianfu open the way on the escort boat, there is a deacon, every fifty meters to strike a gong, and then accompanied by the deacon's "Kneel!" The people on both sides of the river knelt down and saluted the Queen Mother Lafayette. The scene was magnificent.

The imperial ship probably traveled for half an hour in the inner river of the capital, came to the two locks north of the forbidden palace, the imperial ship slowly docked, here is different from the two sides of the river into the city, there is a towering pier archway on the wharf, all the bluestone slabs on the ground are paved, the queen mother led Gui Chun's mother to take the wide golden phoenix, Zhou Liang and the three treasure eunuchs around the queen mother accompanied on foot, Liyue and took Xing'er to take the second carriage, Sanxin and others took the third carriage, and the rest of the people and other grades belonged to you, and then had their own palace people to rhyme back to the palace.

Liyue sat in the middle of the carriage, Xing'er sat on one side, and Xing'er's small piano bag was placed on the other. Xing'er curiously leaned through the window and looked outside. The way back to the palace from the second gate is a quiet street, although it still feels prosperous, but it is not as lively as before.

Xing'er still looked at the front of the car with a curious face, about a stick of incense, in the distance, a red city appeared in front of him, and Xing'er's mouth opened wide in surprise.

"Wow! Aunt Yue, Aunt Yue, look at it, red castle, red castle! Xing'er waved her little hand behind her.

Reyue pursed her lips and smiled, and also leaned to the side of the bed, looking at the red castle from a distance. Liyue was also in a rare mood, and when she looked out, the outer city wall of the Forbidden Palace was fiery and majestic.

"Silly boy, there's the palace ahead."

"The Imperial Palace?" Xing'er rolled her eyes wide, "Is it the palace where the emperor sleeps?" ”

Liyue immediately pressed Xing'er's mouth with her hand and made a gesture of silence. Xing'er suddenly remembered Liyue's previous teaching, you can't talk nonsense in the palace, and the emperor must be honored as the emperor or long live. Immediately covered his mouth with his little hand and laughed secretly.

"Don't say that in the future." Retsuki also smiled.

There is still a water system on the periphery of the palace, which is the moat of the palace, and Feng Yu and the horse convoy drove over the bridge of the moat and came to the north gate of the forbidden palace.

The Queen Mother's Fengyu walked the middle of the three doorways at the North Gate, and the rest of the carriages went to the right side. Xing'er looked at Liyue curiously.

"Aunt Yue, why don't we go to the big one in the middle?"

"Remember, all the halls and the middle door in this palace are for the masters, and we are palace people, so we can only go through the rightmost door. When the ministers went to court, they also walked on both sides according to their official qualities, this is the rule of the palace, understand? Be sure to remember. If you don't understand, read more, ask more, and don't make mistakes. ”

Xing'er nodded, understanding Liyue's words, but a small voice in her heart said: When I have the opportunity one day, I must go back to the middle door to show you!

After entering the Forbidden Palace, Xing'er found that there were still walls on both sides of the palace, but the walls inside were much shorter than those outside, and there were golden tiles on the walls, and the carriage turned to the east and walked along the east side of the palace Road, the walls on both sides of the road were shorter, and some pavilions in the walls could be seen every three or five days, Xing'er couldn't believe his eyes, and rubbed and rubbed again, how could there be such a beautiful house!

Finally, the convoy stopped in front of a tall gatehouse, and there were also three words on the gatehouse: "Shuqing Gate".

Without waiting for the Queen Mother to summon, Liyue got out of the carriage early and stood next to the Queen Mother's Fengyu, waiting for the Queen Mother to descend. Only Xing'er was stupid, holding her piano bag and following everyone.

In fact, the palace people who stayed in the Shuqing Palace had already received the news that the Queen Mother was about to return to Luan, and they stood on both sides of the Shuqing Gate early in the morning and waited for the Queen Mother's Luan.

Mama Gui Chun and Liyue supported the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother stroked her hair that was a little disheveled by the car, and adjusted the robe on her body. The Queen Mother's series of actions puzzled Xing'er the most. Every time I go out to play and come home, I can't wait to make my bed as soon as possible, where do I still need to tidy up my clothes and hair?

When Xing'er was in a daze, the Queen Mother beckoned to Xing'er and motioned her over. Xing'er laughed and ran over. In front of the queen of heaven is blessed.

The Queen Mother bent down, tightened the two buns on Xing'er's head, straightened her clothes, held her little face and looked left and right for a while, and took a delicate small box from Gui Chun's mother's hand.

After finishing her makeup, the Queen Mother took Xing'er's little hand and walked towards Shuqingmen.

When the door of Shuqing opened, Xing'er was stunned by the scene inside......