The palace wall is magnificent and high and deep, when Zhao Ning went to Yipinlou, someone entered the palace gate, walked with a token, drove straight in, saw the door open, saw everyone avoided, came to a rather remote palace.

Compared with the brightly lit halls, the faint lighting of this palace is not much different from the moonlight, and it looks extraordinarily dim. The man entered the courtyard gate, exchanged words with a eunuch who greeted him, and was taken directly to the main hall.

"The ancestor is just here, you wait, wait for our family to report. The eunuch who answered asked the people to wait in the courtyard, and bowed down to the door. In a few moments, the eunuch appeared at the door again and let the visitor in.

On the low couch in the room, an old eunuch with a white beard sat obliquely, smoking an old dry tobacco with a smoothed cigarette stick, and his face was hidden in the smoke that made it difficult to see.

But as soon as the visitor entered the door, he felt two knife-like gazes pierce through the smoke and fall on him, making him feel like a man's back.

Bowing and bowing, the visitor explained the reason for the urgent request and gave a detailed account of what he had seen and heard in the Governor's Mansion.

"The Duke of Zhenguo arrived at the Governor's Mansion today, and he also drove out the governor's affairs, although there is no major movement in this matter, but the battle is indeed not small, and His Majesty has long known about it. ”

Jing Xinmo, who was sitting on the brocade collapse, put down his cigarette gun, and his voice was like a pool of stagnant water, without the slightest fluctuation, "The reason for this is also clear to our family, so you don't need to say more." However, it is the son of the Zhao family, Ning, the means of combining grace and power are really good, only at the age of sixteen, he has such a mental means, which is rare. It seems that he will be much more difficult to provoke than Zhen Guogong in the future. ”

The person who came said yes, answered a few more questions from Jing Xinma, and then exited the room.

"Who did the case near the Feixue Tower in Pingkangfang, have you ever found out?" After the people from the Duwei's Mansion left, Jing Xinmo called a eunuch in charge and asked.

"Back to the words of the ancestors, when the conflict broke out suddenly, those few Yuan Shen Realm were extraordinary, they escaped quickly, and there was no trace of them not far from Pingkangfang, they should have been mixed into the market, and some people responded and deliberately erased the traces, so ...... Our people haven't been able to track down the ...... Please punish the ancestors!" the chief eunuch knelt down tremblingly.

If the people who go out to do errands from this palace are not effective, the punishment is usually extremely severe, and the punishment is often heavy, even if they are killed, they will not be killed.

Contrary to the expectations of the chief eunuch, Jing Xinmo did not punish him this time, but only asked him to step up the investigation without slackening, which made the chief eunuch like a pardon.

The person from the Governor's Mansion had not yet left the palace gate when he met an acquaintance halfway. Seeing each other, both of them just nodded and did not talk without permission. The officials of the Governor's Mansion knew that the other party was serving in Jingzhao Mansion.

Soon after, Jing Xinmo left the palace, dispersed the smoke from his body, and went to see the emperor to report the latest news from the Duwei Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion.

There is no doubt that Song Zhi is a diligent emperor, and at this time he was still reviewing the folds in the Chongwen Palace, and after listening to Jing Xinmo's words, he didn't have any comments, but nodded solemnly.

"Your Majesty, the case of Pingkangfang Feixue Lou has been a whole day, and the old slave has not been able to find out the reason, please punish Your Majesty. Jing Xin bowed.

Song Zhi waved his hand, "It's no wonder that this is a big companion, since some time ago, I divided a lot of people to go to Saibei to write "Fang Wu Zhi", and your manpower is not enough. Now that Daban has more and more things to do, a case like Pingkangfang can be handed over to the Duwei Mansion and Jingzhao Mansion to investigate, and Daban doesn't have to keep an eye on everything. ”

Jing Xinmo leaned over to listen to the order, hesitated for a moment, and still said: "Your Majesty, the property of the Inner Mansion is limited, and there are so many people who can support it. However, in the opinion of the old slave, if His Majesty wants to achieve the goal of supervising the world and knowing everything, he must expand the manpower on a large scale. This is not enough for the money of the inner government, and the national treasury has to share the burden. ”

Song Zhi put down his pen and laughed helplessly, "My companion should know that a powerful existence like Feiyuwei, who only obeys my orders, is separated from all existing government institutions, is not restricted by any court officials, and can monitor every move of hundreds of officials, will inevitably be deeply feared and resisted by all officials in the world."

"If I want the treasury to pay for food, I must pass through the three provinces and expose the Flying Fish Guard to the people. When the time comes, whether it is the gate or the door, they will strongly oppose it, and under the turbulence of the crowd, whether the Flying Fish Guard can continue to exist or not, it will be said twice. ”

Hearing what the emperor said bitterly, Jing Xinmo's eyes couldn't help but become gloomy.

Although the emperor is the lord of the world, he cannot act arbitrarily. In the final analysis, the power in this world does not only belong to the emperor alone, but is jointly held by the emperor and hundreds of officials. Among them, the nobles of the family have a particularly great constraint on the imperial power!

These hundred-year-old families and thousand-year-old clans not only hold important positions in their own clansmen, but their protégés and former officials are all over the world, and if the emperor clearly endangers their interests, they will usher in their counterattack. Not to mention anything else, once they do not contribute to the work when they are on a mission, the imperial court and the government at all levels will not function smoothly, and the emperor's orders will not be implemented.

Since the emergence of the existence of the imperial dynasty, for thousands of years, the imperial court has been strengthening the centralization of power, and the emperor is constantly trying to strengthen the imperial power, which is a long and continuous power struggle!

But in the eyes of Jing Xinmo, there is no world without hundreds of officials, let alone the country, as the emperor's close servants, slaves, and eunuchs who only rely on the emperor's existence, he has only the emperor in his heart, and he is loyal to the emperor and shares the honor and disgrace with the emperor, which is his greatest duty and mission.

Seeing that the emperor is bitter and depressed, Jing Xinmo has a raging anger in his heart, the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord is humiliated and the ministers are dead, and he must solve problems for the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that we can use the reason for compiling and writing the "Fang Wu Zhi" to expand the power of the Flying Fish Guard, and let the treasury contribute money and food. Nowadays, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all know that the "Chronicles of Fang Wuzhi" is an important basis for His Majesty's governance of the country, and it is for the purpose of better handling state affairs! I believe that this reason can not arouse suspicion and resistance among the officials. Jing Xinmo said.

Song Zhi thought for a moment and bowed slightly, "Then try it." ”

Liu Muzhi returned to the mansion and urgently summoned the elders of the clan to discuss the specific arrangements for tonight's operation. Jingzhao Mansion can no longer cooperate with the White Clothes Society and the Goshawk Gang, without this force, the previous arrangement must be changed accordingly.

"Tonight is a big battle, it will inevitably be extraordinary, it will alarm the entire Yanping City, if there is no reason for Jingzhao Mansion to handle the case, we can't explain it to the world and Your Majesty. The Great Elder's face was ugly, and his eyes were not quite right when he looked at Liu Muzhi, as if he was very dissatisfied with his incompetent behavior of not seizing the Feixue Tower case.

Liu Muzhi suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and asked in a cold voice: "With the intention of the Great Elder, what should we do?"

The Great Elder said in a deep voice, "The old man thinks that tonight's operation should be canceled!"

If we don't move, Yipinlou will retaliate against us in the future, and then it will be a scuffle! The Goshawk Gang is willing to help us this time, also because we give them a lot of money and promise to divide the territory of Yipinlou equally! If Yipinlou allows the Goshawk Gang more benefits in the future, or if the master of the Sanqing Sword is sent out at any cost, our situation will be very disadvantaged!" The second elder hurriedly spoke.

The Great Elder snorted coldly and asked Liu Muzhi, "In the case of Feixue Tower, has the Governor's Mansion found out anything?" Does the Zhao family know that our Liu family is behind this matter?"

Liu Muzhi understood what the Great Elder meant, if the white clothes would be the situation of the Liu family's wings, and it had been found by Zhao Ning and others, then in the case that the Liu family and the Zhao family had already started a war, the Zhao family would have a great possibility to unite with Yipinlou to make a move against the Liu family!

Liu Muzhi shook his head and said firmly: "Liu Zhiwu has figured it out, the people and certificates taken away by the Governor's Mansion last night are all ordinary people, they just witnessed the fight, and they don't know anything else." As for the White Clothes Society, don't say that Zhao Ning and the others can't find out, the entire Zhao clan and even all the families have no way of knowing, and we have never exposed the slightest trace!"

"If everything is as you said, why did Zhao Xuanji personally go to the Governor's Mansion today to protect this case?"

Liu Muzhi held back his anger and said: "What Zhao Xuanji did today is to humiliate the old man, improve the status of the Governor's Mansion, and fight back against our door on behalf of the general! The case of Feixue Tower is just a reason! Where can Zhao Xuanji know about our relationship with the White Clothes Society?"

The Great Elder knew that he was unreasonable, but he still stiffened his neck and insisted on his opinion: "In any case, something is abnormal, and the old man thinks that it is not appropriate to act tonight. Otherwise, even if we annex Yipinlou, it will cause a shock in the imperial court and usher in the government's large-scale cleanup of the Yanping Chengjing gang!"

Liu Muzhi fell silent.

In any case, the Great Elder's words are realistic.

But if you don't act this time, the opportunity will slip away, and the huge investment you made before will be wasted. In the process of annexing Yipinlou, the Liu family and the white clothes will take the opportunity to attack the goshawk gang behind their backs, destroy the other party, and complete the plan to unify the forces of Yanping City, which will also fail!

In the future, it will be difficult for Bai Yi to make great achievements, and everything has to start from scratch.

The failure of this plan became a stain on Liu Muzhi, the head of the family, and his authority in the Liu family was affected.

How to choose, is there a way to do both?

Wei Wuxian entered the door with several wine jars in his arms, put them firmly on the table, and laughed proudly, as if he could still walk with six wine jars in his arms, which was something to be proud of, and it was able to make Hu Honglian realize that he was good.

When he was in a good mood, he didn't have much taste for tea, so Wei Wuxian went to a nearby liquor store to buy wine, and he didn't let the entourage who followed him run errands, probably because he thought that doing it himself would make him appear very diligent and easy-going, which would make Hu Hong Lian Gao look at him.

Although there was no wine in the teahouse, there was no shortage of food in the kitchen that needed to be in charge of the guys' meals, and as soon as Wei Wuxian put down the wine jar, the two guys came in with hot dishes, and the color and fragrance were very good.

Zhao Ning, Wei Wuxian, Hu Honglian, Su Yeqing and others sat down together, drank and ate, talked happily, and the atmosphere was relaxed and warm.

"Brother Ning, you say, without the cooperation of Jingzhao Mansion, will the White Yi Society and the Goshawk Gang still act tonight?If they don't come, our pocket array and ambush will be useless, so how should we deal with this situation?" Wei Wuxian drank all the wine in his cup, and suddenly turned his head to ask Zhao Ning.