Jingpo Lake goes southwest two thousand miles away, enters Shanhaiguan, along the foot of the Great Wall, passes the Qing Dongling, and then travels two hundred miles, and arrives at the city of Beijing.

In the early spring and February of the old calendar, the branches sprouted, and the thin ice in Houhai had already melted. The remnants of the people are fishing by the river. As soon as I looked up, the sky of Beijing was so clear that it was almost transparent, and a distant pigeon whistle sounded. Ye Kenan was wearing a blue silk coat and a black top hat, still wrapped around his woolen neck. He didn't have a gun with him, and the patrolman saluted him. Walk to the north edge of Houhai, in front of a mansion painted with red paint.

The house was built in the early years of Kangxi, and the earliest owner was the scholar Mingzhu, who was taken by He Shen as his own in the Qianlong Dynasty. Emperor Jiaqing gave death to Heshen, and the house was changed to Prince Cheng's mansion, and later transferred to Prince Alcohol. When Emperor Guangxu died, according to the bloodline, it should be the turn of the younger brother Prince Alcohol to take the throne. The Empress Dowager Cixi chose Pu Yi, who was only three years old. Zaifeng didn't become the emperor, but became the last emperor and his father. Now the little emperor in the Forbidden City was born in this palace.

Ye Kenan stepped into the palace of Prince Alcohol for the first time, passed the Yin'an Hall on the central axis, entered the back garden, bypassed the pavilions and pavilions, and the former regent Zaifeng was waiting for guests in the West Flower Hall.

"Welcome to the famous detective of the capital!"

The regent is actually not old, only three years older than Yeknan. In the Xinhai Revolution, there is a saying that he was "To young to simple", he used people improperly, was incompetent in governing the country, set up a royal cabinet, and nationalized the railway.

Today, Zaifeng is a person who knows the times, without the shelf of the former imperial dictators, making tea and serving melons and fruit cakes to the guests with his own hands.

"Your Highness, I am grateful that you could agree to this visit. Eleven years ago, in the first year of Xuantong, I had just graduated from the Senior Patrol Police Academy and was working as a small agent at the Patrol Police Station on Jingcheng West Road, when I suddenly received an order from you ordering me to track down the lost young son of a royal craftsman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”

As the heir of the six gates of the capital, Ye Kenan was respectful to the regent. Three years ago, Zhang Xun was restored, and Kang Youwei and other royalists made a big fanfare, but this emperor and his father refused to mix in and maintained loyalty to the Republic of China.

"Is there such a thing?" Zaifeng looked at the birdcage in front of the window, and the thrush was screaming tactfully, before he remembered, "Oh, my brain! It's to build a mausoleum for the first emperor Dezong. I still remember that craftsman, the hereditary tomb beast for the royal family, what is his surname? ”

"Qin Shi Huang's Qin."

"I remember, it was in this West Flower Hall that the Minister of the Interior brought him to see me. The craftsman surnamed Qin kowtowed and smashed a few floor tiles, and said that he must ask me to help him find his young son who was separated in the year of Gengzi, otherwise he would refuse to build a tomb beast. The regent smiled and took a sip of tea, "Am I not young?" When I was only three years old in the emperor, I was separated from my biological father and sent to the Forbidden City alone, so I committed compassion. ”

"Your Highness, I received your edict and spent a lot of effort to finally find the child in the German Concession of Tianjin, and then sent it to the Xiling Underground Palace, and handed it over to the child's biological father."

"Oh, Inspector Ye, in this way, I have also accumulated virtue, so that father and son can be reunited and share the joy of family." Zaifeng paced two steps in the hall, "It's been more than ten years, has this child grown up?" ”

"He has grown up, his name is Qin Beiyang, he is an extremely outstanding young man, and he can even be said to be a pillar of talent, where the hope of China's rejuvenation lies."

"Hey! I'd like to meet him if I have the chance. People say that in the years when I was regent, I ruined the Qing Dynasty, and I had not achieved enough things, but I had more than enough failures. The young man Wang Zhaoming, who assassinated me, turned out to be a national hero. But can you prove to me that I've done good things. ”

"Last summer, the villain was ordered by the State Council to go to Paris to protect the Chinese diplomatic delegation, and he also met this child." Ye Kenan paused for a moment, "I heard that not long after, he died in an accident in the crater of an isolated island in the Arctic Ice Sea. ”

The regent choked and said, "It's a pity! Pity! ”

"But I don't believe he's dead, maybe alive."

"Inspector Ye, you're here to tell me something?"

"No, Your Highness, I want to ask you about another matter."

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." The regent fiddled with the thrush again, "Don't call me Your Highness again." I died early in the morning, I am a citizen of the Republic of China, and the little emperor in the Forbidden City today - my son Pu Yi will also be. ”

"In the first year of Xuantong, the imperial court had a secret military operation, and the destination was Taibai Mountain, the main peak of the Qinling Mountains. Although this matter is top secret, the archives of the War Department record a death pension of 50,000 taels of silver. At that time, it was customary for each deceased to give their family members a hundred taels of silver and 50,000 taels of silver, which can be estimated to be 500 people killed in battle, which is not a small amount. ”

Zaifeng paused for almost a century and sighed: "The Qing Dynasty is dead, and there is nothing to hide secrets. Taibai Mountain, a henchman of the imperial court, has been entrenched in a group of Assassins who have plotted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty for many years. ”

"The Assassin Order?"

"Well, these assassins are elusive, ruthless, and have the skill of slitting throats with daggers, and have assassinated countless high-ranking officials of the imperial court. If anyone is ready to lead the troops up the mountain to encircle and suppress, the minister or general in charge will either move his head in an instant, or the whole family will die overnight. With this appalling method, the court did not dare to touch them. The terrain of Taibai Mountain is extremely dangerous, and outsiders know little about it, which is also the reason why it is difficult to exterminate the assassins. ”

"Lord Wang, during the Xuantong period, why did I still investigate in every possible way without results even though I obtained the murder weapon?"

"You six police circles, dealing with criminal cases, and occasionally arresting ministers who commit crimes also belong to the internal affairs of the imperial court. However, the assassins on Taibai Mountain are rebellious thieves, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Department, and all files belong to the Military Aircraft Department. They exclusively killed the feudal officials of the imperial court, mainly in the territory of the governors of Shaanxi and Gansu, Sichuan, Huguang, Liangguang, and Liangjiang, and never committed any trouble in the capital, and the military aircraft department would not leak these top-secret information. ”

"Doesn't Lord Shangshu of the Patrol Police Department know either?"

"The current president Xu Shichang was a secretary of the patrol police department in his early years, and even he only knew about it and never mentioned it to his subordinates."

Ye Kenan sighed: "Back then, I was just a fledgling patrol police detective, how could I find out about these court secrets?" ”

"For those who work as errands for the court, they should know their duty, what should they do? What shouldn't be done? Some people, who are too curious and manage too much, are good, and lose their heads. Now, I know my duty, so I don't care about anything. The emperor in the Forbidden City also has to call me Amma. I always take care of the emperor, it is a blessing to stay in the red palace wall for one more day, don't always mix with those old and young royalists, and do what kind of Rausch things about the restoration of the dragon banner, think about Charlie in England and Louis in France, but they are unwilling after abdication, what is the result...... Bah! Bah! Bah! What's going on today? How can I say such bad things? ”

The biological father of the little emperor Puyi, every word and deed, is concerned about the safety of his son, don't lose his head for the crown.

"Why did you order the extermination of the Taibai Mountain Assassin Order when you first became regent?"

The young old regent grabbed his snuffbox and inhaled it violently, sneezed three loud times in a row, blew his nose, and felt refreshed: "Isn't this the three fires of the new official?" I want to show the princes of Manchuria, I am not a gentleman, but I am also capable of doing great things, and I must remove this stubborn disease for many years. ”

"Hehe, just like us as detectives, when we first arrive, we must solve a difficult case in order to gain a firm foothold in the police station."

"Another point, Inspector Ye, you have also heard of it - there are three major families in the Qing Dynasty to build mausoleums and palaces: first, the Qin family's tombsmith family; second, the royal architects style the Ray family; Third, the family of Mr. Li, the royal feng shui master. ”

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