Xianyue nodded and stood still. After a while, Hong Zhou walked in and was a little surprised to see Xiayue there, but he quickly raised his hands and saluted, "I see you, Your Majesty, and see Concubine Xian."
"Ping Shen." Hongli raised his hand to signal him to stand up, and then said, "Lao Wu comes to see me now. What do you mean?"
Hong Zhou did not speak, but just raised his eyes to look at Xianyue. Hong Li understood what he meant and said: "It doesn't matter if you say it, there is no need to taboo anything."
Although Hong Li said this, Hong Zhou still had some grudges in his heart and said in a vague way, "My brother is here to deal with the prince's affairs."
Hongli did not make any big announcement about this matter. Except for those spies, only a few close people knew about it. He thought that after Hongli heard this sentence, Xianyue would avoid it, but he didn't know that Hongli actually laughed at him.
Said: "It seems that I really thought about it for a while."
"Your Majesty..." Before Hong Zhou could finish speaking, Hong Li had already said: "Concubine Xian already knows about this matter, and she has also made an idea for me. I just want to listen to your opinion."
Hong Zhou was silent for a moment, then he cupped his hands toward Xianyue and said, "I would like to hear from you, Concubine Xian."
"I don't dare." Xianyue nodded slightly, repeated what she just said, and then said: "My fallacy, if the prince feels that it is wrong, just point it out."
Hong Zhou thought for a long time and said: "The empress' plan is feasible, but it will take a long time to win their trust."
Hongli said: "So, you agree with Concubine Xian's suggestion?"
Hong Zhou did not answer directly, but said: "My brother came today just to report to the emperor. I suspect that someone is conspiring with Hong Xi, but I can't find out who it is. If I can break into them,
Naturally, you can find out who they are."
Hongli nodded and said, "It's just that if you do this, you will be wronged, Old Five."
Hong Zhou said in a deep voice: "As a servant of the emperor, I should help the emperor solve his problems. Besides, I also want to catch those thieves who disturb the peace of our Qing Dynasty with my own hands."
"Okay, from now on, I will target you and be dissatisfied with you so that you can get close to them, but you can only rely on yourself to adapt to specific matters."
"My brother knows that I will be careful." Not long after Hong Zhou finished speaking, Xiayue suddenly said: "Your Majesty, after you pretended to be at odds with Prince He, you might as well relinquish Prince He's power over Shanxi Ruijianying."
Hongli said in confusion: "Didn't you say before that this was the biggest bargaining chip for Lao Wu to lure Hong Xi into taking the bait? Why are you letting me seize the power from Lao Wu now? Doesn't that make it more difficult for Lao Wu?"
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Xianyue said with a smile: "It all depends on what Prince He says. If you say it properly, it will be easier to win over Prince Li. Then, by showing loyalty and 'cheating' the military power, you can completely eliminate Prince Li."
suspicion."
After thinking about it for a while, Hongli and Hongzhou both nodded and agreed with Xianyue's statement. But after Xianyue left, Hongzhou said: "Your Majesty, why did you tell Concubine Xian such an important matter? You are not afraid of her.
Will this be leaked?"
Hongli had already expected that he would ask this question, so he said calmly and calmly: "Who should I leak it to?"
Hong Zhou opened his mouth to speak, but found that his mind was blank. He could not think of anyone who Xianyue would leak to. The Nala clan no longer existed. Xianyue had no connection with the previous dynasty, let alone any interest.
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Seeing Hong Zhou's appearance, Hong Li raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "No, right? Among the harem, Concubine Xian has the least contact with the previous dynasty, so at this point, I trust her even more than the queen. "
Hong Zhou nodded and said: "That's true, and the idea she came up with this time is indeed very good. It should be very likely to win Hong Xi's trust."
Hongli walked down and patted him on the shoulder and said, "This time it's all up to you. Be careful."
Hong Zhou smiled and cupped his hands and said, "My brother accepts the order."
Apart from the Hongli brothers, only Xianyue and Sixi who were waiting in the palace knew about the whole thing. What others saw was that when she and the prince met with Hongli, they offended Shengyan and were kicked out of the palace by Hongli. After that, the two seemed to have a knot in their hearts. No matter what he did with the prince, Hongli was not satisfied. Sometimes he would even deliberately find fault with him. Yunli did not want their brothers to be at odds with each other, and tried every possible means to persuade them, but the effect was not The two brothers went in opposite directions, going further and further away until they could no longer look back.
This stalemate broke out in May of the fourth year of Qianlong's reign. Hongli issued an order to remove all errands from Hongzhou, including the power to take charge of Xishan Jianrui camp, and to replace it with Zhaohui. In anger, Hongzhou actually showed up in the court Hongli walked away with a puff of his sleeves, so angry that Hongli's face turned livid, and all the officials were frightened.
After being dismissed from the errand, Hongzhou began to give up on himself. Not only did he not go to court, he often got drunk in the tavern. One time, Zhaohui met him and kindly persuaded him, but he was ridiculed by Hongzhou, and they broke up unhappy.
Hongli also seemed to be extremely disappointed with him and stopped asking Hongzhou anything. Although Yunli and others were anxious, there was nothing they could do.
That night, Hong Zhou was so drunk that Xun Xun came out of the closed tavern. He was staggering around and couldn't even walk steadily. However, he kept pouring wine into his mouth like this, which made people speechless.
When he reached the end of the street, he accidentally bumped into Hong Xi, who was in Beijing to meet his driver today. However, Hong Zhou didn't seem to recognize the person and still stumbled forward. He didn't stop until he bumped into someone and said inarticulately: " Who, who hit me?"
Hong Xi was the son of the deposed prince Yin Reng, and he was also Yin Reng's only descendant who survived to adulthood. At the age of forty, he had quite the same demeanor as Yin Reng's.
Hong Xi stopped the servant who was about to scold him, walked forward and took a closer look, and said in surprise: "Isn't this Lao Wu? Why do you look like this?"
Hong Zhou staggered to steady his body and looked at Hong Xi. After a long time, he chuckled and said: "This... isn't this our Prince Li? You're not here..." He burped and said: "In the palace of Zhengjiazhuang, what are you doing here?"
"Have you forgotten that every month I go to Beijing to see the emperor? I went to Beijing early today and will go back tomorrow. But you, why are you drinking like this? Is it because of what happened before?"
Hong Zhou shook the wine bottle and sneered: "The past... yes, it's all in the past. Don't mention it anymore. There's no point in mentioning it again!" At this point, he was about to pour wine into his mouth again, but Hong Zhou was Xi took it off and said, "Stop drinking. Do you really want to drink yourself to death?"
Hong Zhou said while grabbing the wine bottle: "It's better to drink to death, so as not to disturb some people here, just leave me alone and let me drink!"
Hong Xi was willing to give it to him, so he called two servants and said: "You send Prince He back to his house."
Without waiting for the servant to agree, Hong Zhou already said loudly: "No, I don't want to go back, I want to drink, you..." He pointed at Hong Xi and said: "Drink with me."