Chapter 63: The Regent's Memories (2)
Beijing, Prince Alcohol's Mansion.
Detective Ye Kenan frowned: "The Li family, the royal feng shui master, was the first to break off. β
"This Mr. Li is a descendant of Li Chunfeng, the master of the Tang Dynasty's "Tui Bei Tu". He is a peerless master, the Huiling of the Tongzhi Emperor, and the Dingdong Tomb of the Queen Mother Lafayette, all of which are personally searched by him. Wuxu changed the law, the first emperor Dezong was placed under house arrest, and Mr. Li belonged to the imperial party, and he actually colluded with Concubine Zhen Niangniang and almost rescued the emperor from Yingtai. This angered Lafayette and threw his entire family into prison. Two years later, Gengzi became chaotic, Lafayette threw Concubine Zhen into the well, and ordered Mr. Li to be beheaded all over the house, and dozens of members of the family, from the old lady to the little baby, were all killed, but only Mr. Li's young son escaped, and it is said that he went to Taibai Mountain and was adopted by the Assassin Order. β
Ye Kenan was quite puzzled: "A mere child, can he use the imperial court to make a big move?" β
"This child is the son of Mr. Li, the descendant of Li Chunfeng, and can be said to be the most powerful feng shui master in the world, holding the secret of "Tui Bei Tu". In that year, Tongzhi Zhongxing, Zeng Guofan exterminated the long-haired thief, Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, the date of the two famous ministers, the route of the march, and even the formation of the camp are said to be related to Mr. Li's fortune-telling. β
"Just like Zhuge Liang?"
After all, he graduated from the Higher Patrol Police Academy and had eaten some foreign ink, so Ye Kenan was skeptical of this statement.
"That's not great. You must know that since the entry of the Qing Dynasty, all the emperor's tombs and concubine tombs have been located by this family, including the feng shui pattern of the mausoleum - if these secrets are leaked, the descendants will steal the ancestral tomb of the Qing emperor and destroy the feng shui of the Aixin Jueluo family, it will be too easy. β
"Your Highness, are you saying that when this child grows up, he can easily dig up the tombs of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty?"
"Including the mausoleum of the Queen Mother Lafayette." The regent personally served tea to the guests, "Inspector Ye, think about it, Lafayette ordered the killing of this child's parents and the whole family, can you not hate us in the Qing Dynasty?" I'm afraid I want to dig Lafayette's tomb in my dreams......"
"You're worried! According to the "Regulations on Preferential Treatment of the Qing Dynasty", isn't the government of the Republic of China still protecting the mausoleums of the emperors and queens of the Qing Dynasty? β
Having said that, Ye Kenan was thinking in his heart, I was afraid that it would become a prophecy! In this troubled era of the Republic of China, the Empress Dowager Cixi in the coffin of the mausoleum is afraid that she will be dragged out sooner or later.
"You don't know, according to the secret report I received back then, the Assassin Order in Taibai Mountain not only assassinated the imperial court officials, but also wantonly robbed and excavated mausoleums in various places."
"Could it be that the Assassins financed their activities from antiquities and treasures excavated from tomb robberies?"
"I don't know."
Ye Kenan was already roughly clear: "That's why you ordered to conquer Taibai Mountain, break the assassin's lair, and get rid of Mr. Li's young son?" β
"But this matter, the ugliness of the royal family must not be publicized, and there is a lesson from the assassination of the minister. I classified this operation as top secret, and did not inform the local officials in Shaanxi, but the imperial court was directly responsible, and sent elite troops from the new army, many officers who returned from abroad. β
"No matter how powerful the Assassins are, they can't match the European weapons that the new army is equipped with."
The regent smoked his snuffbox again: "How did the army hit Taibai Mountain?" I almost forgot about it, I only knew that I lost troops and lost troops along the way, and I spent a lot of silver taels in the imperial court, and I succeeded by luck. β
"Have you captured Mr. Li's young son?"
"It's a shame to say. On Taibai Mountain, the imperial court killed the master of the Assassin Order, captured his two children alive, and allowed Mr. Li's son to escape. The two children of the Assassin master, who were escorted to me, twins of a man and a woman, only six or seven years old, knelt in this West Flower Hall. β
"The children of the great rebels should be beheaded according to the law."
Ye Kenanzu worked as an errand boy in the yamen of the capital for the last generation, and he knew the laws of the Qing Dynasty well.
"But I was still young at the time, and I read a few foreign books, which, according to Westerners, are humanitarianism. I ordered on the spot - the men entered the palace and were castrated as eunuchs, and the women were sent to the Bada Hutong to be prostitutes. I didn't expect that this would make them worse than dead, but I just felt that it was a great mercy to save the lives of these two children. β
"Do you know what happened to these two children?"
"The regent has a lot of opportunities, how can he take care of this anymore?" Zaifeng touched the braid on the back of his head, "However, I heard that the Assassin Order on Taibai Mountain has not been killed, and there are still fish that have slipped through the net." But I kept thinking, why didn't they come to kill me for revenge? β
"You are the regent of the Qing Empire, and naturally you are the most well-guarded, it is not easy to murder you, didn't that Wang Zhaoming also miss?"
"A scholar surnamed Wang, how can he be compared to the Taibai Mountain Assassin Order? He was arrested before he could do anything. But what he did in prison was 'generosity, and he calmly became a prisoner of Chu. Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the boy's head. It aroused my love for talent, and it actually allowed him to survive. β
"I still remember the first sentence of the poem, 'The stone becomes obsessed, and the waves are sorrowful', using the allusion of Jingwei's reclamation, and since then he has changed his name to Wang Jingwei."
"I'm angry when I mention that kid! Don't talk about it. Zaifeng's tears and snot fell, "I think, the assassins of Taibai Mountain saw through my lack of ability to govern the country, so they asked me to be the dictator of the empire, and by tossing around with my temperament, I can make the Qing Dynasty fall as soon as possible." β
"The assassins have Mr. Li's youngest son, can they also be counted as a catastrophe of the Qing Dynasty?"
The regent slapped the table heavily and regarded it as a great shame: "This trick is the most ruthless!" Worse than killing me! Instead, I avenged them. β
"Your Highness, if you estimate the timeβnot long after the imperial court conquered Taibai Mountain, I found the lost son of the Qin craftsman in the German Concession of Tianjin. That night, the child's adoptive parents were killed by two Assassins who slit their throats. The murder weapon was a dagger with an ivory handle, inlaid with a luodian pattern of a comet striking the moon. If I hadn't intervened in time, the Qin children would have died long ago, or been taken captive by the assassins. β
"An ivory-handled dagger? The Raden pattern of a comet hitting the moon? And a cut throat? The Lord Regent stood up and paced, "Isn't this the hallmark of the Taibai Mountain Assassin Order?" β
"Your Highness, I have been following this matter for more than ten years, and I have encountered those assassins many times during that time. In ten years, they killed an unknown number of people, even to the Paris Peace Conference. But I have never been able to find out the details of these people. It was only recently that I connected these two events in the first year of Xuantong. β
Pu Yi's father gasped: "Taibai Mountain's secret military operation - the Tianjin German Concession Extermination Case?" β
"There is a certain correlation between the two, and even some kind of causal relationship. Do you remember what the twin siblings looked like? β
In the West Flower Hall of Prince Alcohol's Mansion, the thrush chirped wildly again, and the former regent Zaifeng patted his thigh: "Remember!" Very beautiful two kids. Especially the little girl, her eyes are faint and shining, staring straight at you, and her vest is panicked. β
The detective said to himself: "She's Ah You? β
"A trip to the mountain, a trip to the water, the body to the side of Yuguan, a thousand tent lights in the middle of the night. The wind is changing, the snow is changing, the dream of the broken hometown cannot be realized, and there is no sound in the old garden......"
The regent read out a long and short sentence, and Ye Ke asked puzzledly: "Lord Wang, isn't this Nalan Xingde's "Sauvignon Blanc"? β
"Yes, Nalan Xingde is the son of Mingzhu in college, and he was born in this mansion." Zaifeng spit out two tea leaves into the tea bowl, "You don't understand, there is no sound in the old garden......"
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