Reunion of the Dead (IV) (II)

Yiyi squinted his eyes: "What about the pair of monarchs?" ”

Yang Quanan broke out in a cold sweat: "In my humble opinion, I think it may be a good thing or a bad thing." ”

"Oh?"

"Swords are murderous, and there are victories and defeats. If he wins, the historian will sing praises and praise the military strategy. But war is like firing a bow and arrow, once it is shot, there is no turning back, but the war will encounter all kinds of ever-changing events, in case of an unexpected defeat, it may not only be the infamy of the historian, but also may attract the coveting of the small to the big position, and attract more calculations and battles. Therefore, the old slave thought that some wars were for the sake of life and death, and they had to fight, and they had to fight for the king and the people. And some battles, if they can be avoided, try to avoid them. In particular, those villains who are interested in interests deliberately provoke the troubles caused, and if they rashly move troops, they are afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Yiyi nodded and patted him on the shoulder: "Old Yang, I can't see it, you still have a lot of ideas." ”

Yang Quan's peace of mind has not yet been restored, so he quickly wiped his sweat. Can you not have an idea? "The old slave has only followed the master for many years, Sometimes I see those adults talking their own words, and I used to follow the master to the south study to listen to the teacher's lectures, hear some truths, and occasionally think about it for the master, I don't know if it's right. A minion is a rough man, who hasn't read much. said wrong, and asked His Highness for forgiveness. ”

Yiyi smiled: "Where there is a crime, you should be rewarded." Even if you study with Prince Ben, you know how to learn something from Mr., and you can be regarded as a caring person. ”

Yang Quanan smiled embarrassedly: "The old slave was dull since he was a child, and he didn't have the opportunity to study, and in those years, I was lucky to follow His Royal Highness in and out of the South Study. ”

"Yes," Yiyi thought of those years, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Maybe those years were the happiest times of my life." After a while, his eyes looked a little confused again, I don't know what the person who brought him sunshine in those years is now?

"Old Yang," Yi Yi once again used this title that was only called to him in front of their private acquaintances, "Do you think Ning Er will still be in the capital?" She's so smart, maybe she thought of a way to hide, so that we couldn't find it? ”

Yang Quanan frowned slightly: "It's hard to say. It's just that His Royal Highness didn't just send people to find her back then. At the beginning, the abolished prince was not reconciled, and privately sent someone to check in the capital, but there were no clues. What's more, at that time, the waste prince's thoughts about her were inevitable, and he didn't let go of any places that could be found in the capital. In that case, can you still escape in the capital? ”

Yiyi pursed his lips: "But a few days ago, Xiao Shiyi said that he saw her in Ciyun Temple." ”

"After all, the eleventh prince was young at that time, so he may not be able to recognize it, and didn't His Royal Highness send someone to Tsz Yun Temple a few days ago?"

"I've thought about it carefully in the past few days, when we were looking for her, we sent someone to Jiangnan to check, and the unprecepted monk of Ciyun Temple knew the Yan family. If someone had been able to save her and hide her, it would have been possible to have the power of the unprecepted in the capital. ”

"Wujie is a monk in the temple, he?"

"Don't underestimate a monk, although Ciyun Temple is not as good as the royal Baoguo Temple, but Ciyun Temple's status in the northern Zen forest is unmatched. Do you know how many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the capital go to worship the unprecepted mountain gate every year? He does good deeds every year, opens a charity hall to take in so many orphans, how many of those children have grown up and entered the industrial and commercial circle of Shinong in the capital? In this capital, I am afraid that the famous big families are his benefactors. Back then, I thought about the old people of the Zhou family, but I neglected the Yan family. ”

"Your Highness," Yang Quan'an looked at Yiyi, who was a little excited, and his expression seemed to have the intention of turning over the major temples in the capital, especially Ciyun Temple: "The old slave has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" ”

"You say!"

"It's been so many years, almost six years. If Miss Zhou is still here, maybe she doesn't want to go back to the palace. And Miss Zhou is not too young, if it is in the people, at her current age, she may have married and had children, and she is no longer suitable for entering the palace as a female official. Even if there is no such thing as back then, if she is still in the palace, she will be at the age when she can be rewarded out of the palace next year, and she will go out to get married. ”

Yiyi opened his mouth slightly, wanted to say something, stopped again, and then bit his lip. Yes, if she is still there, she hasn't come back after so many years, she doesn't want to come back. After a long time, he seemed to say softly to himself: "I just want to know if she is okay." ”

Back in the East Palace, the people sent out came back to report the bounty. Today, it has begun to spread in the market that the prince rewarded the life-saving guards with a hundred taels of gold, which became a hundred taels of silver. And there was no way to turn for help when the wounded guards were down. Yesterday, a lot of lively people followed them to the backyard of the Ping An Inn, and it was normal for this matter to spread. But what makes Yiyi very hot is the matter of turning bounty gold into silver. He didn't do it on the spot yesterday, because he wanted to come back and find out what went wrong. It was a very important matter for him.

One affects the image of the prince's benevolence, the guards only have a hundred taels of silver to block the arrows, if this matter is spread, who will protect him in the future? Second, a hundred taels of gold was ordered by him, and there were only one hundred taels of silver in the hands of the guards, which clearly disobeyed his words. Originally, he thought that the problem was the forbidden army, and that it might be the result of the officers' detaining of their subordinates and exploiting them layer by layer. After inquiry, I learned that the rewards for retirement and honorable pensions would not go to the forbidden army, but directly from the Ministry of Household Grace. After checking it over, it was found that although there were some factional disputes in the Praetorian Guard over the years, fortunately, several generals only disagreed politically and stood in different teams, but they all had the intention to lead good soldiers, and there was no bad atmosphere of superiors deducting salaries from subordinates. Anyway, these forbidden troops are related to the safety of the imperial city and the court, and the most important thing is not to make a big mess.

But if this problem is gone, Enzhao Province will also have a headache. Enzhao Province is not only related to the reward, dismissal and honor of retired soldiers, but also the royal and imperial court's treatment of various people, officials, and various capable people and scholars of the Great Zhou Dynasty. To put it bluntly, as big as the silver raised by the first and auxiliary ministers of the central government, and as small as the cost of setting up a chastity archway in the edge ravine, these are all under the management of Enzhao Province. It is a department that uses court money to appease people's hearts. The annual flow of water in this place is large, there is no Kaobi, and the people have been rewarded, most of them are grateful to Dade, and few people have investigated whether there is a few missing percent. In the household department, it is counted as the most comfortable and easy to mix yamen.

The household department has been controlled by the Lan family's forces over the years, and the head of Enzhao Province is the nephew of the eldest lady of the Lan family, the third master of the Liu family in Guanzhong. The eight-fold difference between one hundred taels of gold and one hundred taels of silver is not the hard work of taking one out of eight, but the exploitation of eight to seven, which is difficult to explain. And this is still the reward of the crown prince of the imperial prison, the real gold went out of the East Palace, and when it came to Enzhao Province, it changed color. If other rewards are better, but this is the life of the guards, and this situation will occur, then other affairs in Enzhao Province can be imagined. Sure enough, after a check, except for Shuntianfu and a few places closer to the capital, there are problems with the alimony in other places. And the alimony is only the tip of the iceberg, if it is opened, I am afraid that there will be huge waves of shooting. And the slap in the face is that this is within the Lan family's power, and outsiders seem to be within the scope of his prince's line.

In the era when Yixiang was the prince, the Queen Mother said that the Lan family and the Liu family were both scholarly families of poetry and books, and Yiyi had the wisdom of the literati, so he lived and studied with the Queen Mother, in order to make fun of Sun. It has also been repeatedly emphasized to outsiders that this has nothing to do with the big position. In those years, the Lan family and the Liu family were indeed low-key, they were literati families who did their duty, and never participated in any party disputes and factions in the court. Most of the family members are officials in other provinces, and even the Beijing officials are inconsequential Qingshui Yamen. Up and down seems to be an elegant and detached posture. It wasn't until five years ago that Yixiang shot himself in the foot, and the emperor's physical condition was getting weaker, that the queen mother pushed Yiyi to the front. In just five years, Yiyi suddenly realized that it seemed that the Lan family and the Liu family, and even the Guo family, who dared to humiliate Jing'an two days ago, seemed to have quietly undergone tremendous changes in a short period of five years. And the Liu family is different from the Guo family, although the ancestors of the Guo family have produced many high-ranking officials, they have declined over the years. And the Liu family has been quite powerful among the Guan Chinese people over the years, and it is also a strong and effective force for the Lan family to control civilian officials, and it cannot be discarded at will like the Guo family. But if the Liu family keeps falling, how can he continue to clear the name of the prince? If the Liu clan is weakened, who will fill it? The ensuing series of problems made him have a headache and entanglement.

He pinched his fingers, and sometimes, something had to be discarded: "Let them do what they want." ”

The clerk nodded expressionlessly, which was the wisest way. Some things don't have to be covered up in the past. And this time, the people of the capital and all the forces in the DPRK and China are staring. Just ask routinely, "Do you need to say hello to my mother?" ”

"No, you let them do it first, I'll see the queen mother later." He needed to communicate with the queen more than just superficial things. Regarding the Lan family and the other forces of the Hou family, he has his thoughts.

The person who did the work nodded, with Yiyi's character, he didn't like the queen too much to interfere in his affairs. Maybe in Yiyi's eyes, the queen is far inferior to the queen mother's wisdom, and he would rather discuss many things with the queen mother than ask the queen. The clerk did not speak, and was about to leave to run errands.

Yiyi suddenly stopped him, but he didn't speak immediately, and only after a while did he ask, "Is someone from the Tang family involved in this matter?" ”