It was said that the Dauchi Liu family quietly left the palace. The Empress Dowager was shocked for a while and said with a wry smile: "That's it, you can't keep those who want to leave. Rebellion will have its own divine punishment."
Dai Quan regretted it endlessly: "Old slave was still coaxed by them until yesterday. He only thought that they were really being framed. He was really loyal."
The Empress Dowager shook her head: "It's such a coincidence that all the people who fled are surnamed Liu."
After a while, Dai Quan said cautiously: "The Empress Dowager, at least... we still have the shop."
The Empress Dowager sighed: "What's the use? Didn't you hear me? Even the account books are in the Liguo Mansion. Laojiu and Zhao Cheng both know that the shop belongs to their family, can the Ai family still say it belongs to the Ai family?"
Does the Ai family have any evidence?"
Dai Quan thought for a moment: "This is indeed the truth." He thought again, "The Empress Dowager, today, the old slave wants to sneak out of the palace and go to Rongguo Mansion to meet Jia Cong. This person has weird ideas and can
Think of ways that ordinary people can’t think of.”
The Empress Dowager waved her hands and said: "He is not loyal."
Dai Quan said: "He is not a traitor. He is standing on the dry shore, which is better than being in the water. Besides, the seventh prince is in their house. Whether he supports the seventh prince or not, this is a root that sticks to him.
The thorn in the side with Situ Pan."
The Empress Dowager looked up at the door for a long time and sighed: "Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. There is really no one else." Dai Quan knelt down and kowtowed.
That afternoon, a hawker selling purses in Lixiangyuan knocked on the door to sell his goods. Jia Cong was shocked to see that it was Dai Quan! He quickly went up to him and whispered, "Hey, you're not afraid of being recognized."
Dai Quan said with a smile: "Not many people recognize the Zajia family."
Jia Cong shrugged: "That's right. Come and sit inside, it will be cooler." Dai Quan nodded and followed him in. He turned around and took a peek, and saw Lin Luan playing with a fat white baby on the corridor, and was secretly happy.
Arriving in the hall, Dai Quan sighed softly: "Mr. Jia, do you know Yinfengju?"
"I don't want to know!" Jia Cong said quickly, "An antique shop becomes more and more complicated. It doesn't matter who it is, it has nothing to do with me."
Dai Quan laughed and scolded: "You are a Monkey, you hide when trouble comes." He whispered, "I actually run that shop secretly on behalf of the little saint."
"Ah?!" Jia Cong shuddered. "Sure enough, it's getting more and more chaotic."
Dai Quan said sadly: "Look at the current situation, the Liguo Mansion wants to take it away."
Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I think it's a good idea that they didn't surrender the little saint. Now that it's in their hands, don't think too much about it. The little saint has no connection with that shop."
Dai Quan's face turned cold: "Is it possible that they swallowed it in vain?"
Jia Cong glanced at him: "Can they still return it to the little saint?"
Dai Quan hurriedly said: "The people from the Za family are still in charge of it now. I just don't know when their family will be taken away."
Jia Cong was stunned when he heard this: "Huh? You haven't taken it away yet?" Dai Quan shook his head slightly. Jia Cong rolled his eyes, "That's because they don't want it. 'Four Generals Chaosing the Capital' At that time, the government was safe.
He's fine. He has a deep family background, so he may not be able to afford that shop. You guys are still selling things from the palace... Hiss..." He suddenly fell silent.
Dai Quan waited attentively for a long time and couldn't help but ask: "What did Mr. Jia think of?"
Jia Cong pursed his lips and said: "Eunuch Dai, are you making a mistake? If the Liguo Mansion wants that shop, it can just take it away. Do you think it's okay to offend the people who left it for you? If you don't take it, you won't take it. Why do I feel that it's for nothing?
Is it the one who takes the blame?"
Dai Quan sighed: "At first, the Za family really thought that they were helping the little saint take the blame. I never thought..." He hesitated for a while and whispered, "They left."
"ha?"
"There was originally someone in the Liguo Mansion who was holding hostage in Da Nei."
Jia Cong thought to himself, as expected, bullshit is not a unique skill of the young man, but a common talent of all mankind. He also shouted: "How is it possible! The little saint himself is still a child. As the saying goes, a centipede will die without stiffness.
The Liguo Mansion is also an old family. If there were any hostages in the palace, they would have been taken out a few years ago."
Dai Quan sighed: "The hostage stayed in the palace because of his oath."
Jia Cong frowned, thought for a moment, and said: "A while ago, the prince wanted that shop, so he said that the shop had sold stolen goods. After an investigation by the Wucheng Military and Horse Department, it was found that it was not just selling stolen goods, but stealing and selling palace belongings. Then he took charge of the government.
I came out to take the blame and coaxed King Yan. Frankly speaking, I would not take such a big blame. Hmm... Could it be that the Liguo Mansion used the little saint to take the blame in exchange for their hostages?
go out?"
Dai Quan was startled and suddenly thought: Could it be that the Liu family didn't want to live in Yinfeng? He straightened his back and couldn't hold back his imagination. The Liu family in Dauchi had secret contacts with the Liguo Mansion.
They knew it. But the Tian family didn't take it seriously because the two families were doing it too secretly and couldn't provide any evidence, and the Liguo government really had no useful people. In the past few years, the Empress Dowager wanted to start a business outside, because she
My parents' family had already asked King Yan to drive out of the capital, and then entrusted him to manage the country. Liu Biao was a hundred times more powerful than his family's children and grandchildren, and he knew in his heart that the one in Ouchi was definitely not comparable to his own. In troubled times, heroes emerge.
In the peaceful and prosperous times, they could still hang out in the palace for decades more; in today's world, if you have no title but no ability, you are just waiting to die slowly. If there are no traitors in the palace, everything is the fault of the Liguo Mansion.
, just to frame the Ouchi Liu family in front of the Empress Dowager, so that they would feel cold...
The more he thought about it, the more he was right. The old eunuch clenched his fists, raised his head and asked Jia Cong, "Guess who caused the incident in Yinfengju."
Jia Cong spread his hands and said: "I don't know anything about guessing! Anyway, whoever gets the benefit in the end is the one who did it."
Dai Quan nodded slowly and said word by word: "That's right. Whoever benefits is the one who did it." He closed his eyes for a while, stood up and left.
Jia Cong sent him out, and saw Lin Luan coaxing Jia Jue from a distance. Dai Quan asked casually: "That child is so white and fat, he is really cute."
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Really? That is my second uncle's youngest son, and he is now the treasure of our house."
Dai Quan glanced at him sideways and said, "The third master is very handsome."
Jia Cong snorted, "That was forced upon you by the Empress Dowager! When brother Huan comes back from his honeymoon, he will have already bought a house for her." Without waiting for Dai Quan to speak, he rushed to say, "The Empress Dowager is really outrageous.
How can a granddaughter get married to a woman? Is she actually my grandmother?"
Dai Quan only thought that if he wanted this woman, he had to try to remove Jia Huan's name first, so he looked at him with a smile but not a smile, waved his hand and said: "Anyway, the woman has been sent to your house, the Miscellaneous family doesn't care.
"But he left.
Jia Cong watched him slowly disappear, and thought to himself: Dai Quan sneaked out of the palace in person, but they knew they had no one else available. The Liu family in Dauchi should have left cleanly. Where are the three people from the noodle restaurant in the north of the city? Oh, now
There are only two left, and one is guarding the tunnel entrance outside the Forbidden City. Did the Liu family leave them behind?
Thinking of this, Jia Cong turned back to Chen Ruijin for discussion. Chen Ruijin said: "I have seen the three of them quietly, one is the female guard. The female guard is quite taboo with the male guard pretending to be a couple, for fear that the relationship will be difficult to control. The fourth boss Wang
A teenager with no beard makes me suspicious that he is a eunuch."
"Eunuch? Isn't it right? If it were eunuch Shi Li, wouldn't he be able to hear his shrill voice?"
Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "It's not like all eunuchs have shrill voices. Although most eunuchs purify themselves at a young age, some eunuchs purify themselves after changing their voices."
"That's it." Jia Cong nodded, "These two eunuchs are from the original group of 'no guys'. Then there should be no 'good guys' around the Queen Mother, right?"
Chen Ruijin said: "I grew up in the female guard camp and didn't know the Liu family. In the early years, Eunuch Liu once said that our female guards are not considered to be internal guards. The internal guards only need to practice martial arts to protect the master."
Jia Cong thought for a while and said: "That's something that most male guards don't need to learn. What about shops, construction, spies? Male guards don't learn much. People from the Liu family are not allowed to learn."
Chen Ruijin nodded. Jia Cong shook his head and said, "Then can I think that most of the people selling things for the Empress Dowager and collecting information outside are mostly eunuchs, or her eunuchs have been outside getting money in the past two years?
Recruited.”
"That's about it."
Jia Cong stretched out: "Does Shi Li know?"
"This was the noodle shop he took me to."
"Okay, let him take care of this first." Jia Cong let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm afraid there are still female guards and eunuch guards in the palace."
"oh."
As expected, Shi Li did not make the Empress Dowager feel comfortable. While Ma Sili was "entertaining you" in Yinfengju, he learned more and more. People outside the palace died unexpectedly one after another. What do you think of the door of Prince Yan's Mansion?
Beggars, beggars at the gate of Liguo Mansion, beggars at the gate of Rongguo Mansion; a soldier from the Royal Forest Army passed by under the dry bridge in the south of the city and killed a beggar leader because of a misfire of his Western-style gun.
There was a gambling shop that had only been opened for two years in the west of Bingcheng. In the middle of the night, when gambling was in full swing, a group of idlers rushed in and killed more than twenty gangsters. The owner of the gambling house suffered the most tragic death.
The body was split into two pieces. Several gamblers all said that they saw someone holding a match in the trash. The owner of the casino was shot with a gun, and then the body was cut open. After hearing this, the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division became more and more dissatisfied.
Dare to check - only the elite of the Royal Guards can be equipped with Western firearms and guns. The owner of this gambling house is just an idle man from out of town. He doesn’t even have a wife, let alone relatives. It’s hard to say what the Royal Guards’ background is. Who doesn’t know that the west of the city is fighting Qin Dynasty?
Things will go haywire after the third shopkeeper leaves?
A house near the Forbidden City was robbed in the middle of the night. The owner of the house was very unlucky. He was a young boy, and the house was the inheritance of his cousin. He had just acquired it and was beaten to death by the thieves. Because two people died in a row.
There was a house owner. The first one was beaten to death by the eunuchs of the third family of King Yan. Zhao Chengdeng immediately guessed that this little thief had something to do with the third highness. So he did not dare to mess around and ordered people to temporarily seal the house and save it for later.
Disposal. It’s hard to say when “in the future” will be.
The Empress Dowager now truly believed that the Liu family was unjustly accused. The beggar and the gambling den were both top secrets, and the Liu family didn't know anything about it. She was filled with regrets and depression, and she was actually sick with anger. However, in this way, the government would no longer be able to rule the country.
He may be the mastermind behind the scenes, and it is impossible to say that he was instigated and used by others. There is still a traitor, and he has not been caught yet.
Since she was sick, the little saint had no choice but to come over to attend to her illness. The Empress Dowager held her hand and said: "If the Liu family were here, our grandparents and grandchildren would be safer. It's a pity that the Ai family was angry. Now, if there is Wan
It’s up to you what to do.”
The little saint's expression changed, and he muttered: "Royal Grandmother, Uncle Ninth... won't kill us. If you want to kill us, kill us already."
The Empress Dowager shed tears and said: "You don't understand... If he doesn't take action, there is no guarantee that others will take action." The little saint's face became increasingly ugly.
At that moment, Dai Quan personally sent him back to the palace, and ordered everyone else to stay away. He asked in a low voice: "Little saint, now you and the Empress Dowager are the only ones in this palace who depend on each other. Don't hide anything from her.
"The little sage lowered his head, with a panicked look on his face. Dai Quan knew more and more that he had something important that he had not said, so he tried to persuade him a few more times. The little sage forced him to say that he could no longer hide it, so he had no choice but to say it.
A few days ago, a masked man in black suddenly broke into his bedroom. Before everyone knew what happened, the man knocked out all the eunuchs and maids in the room like a wind. Then he took out a piece of paper from his arms.
He put a dagger against the little saint's neck and ordered him to copy it. The little saint was frightened and restrained, so he had to do it tremblingly. The meaning of the note was to let the Liu family leave the palace.
Dai Quan was shocked: "Why didn't you report such a big thing to the Queen Mother?"
The little saint lowered his head and said, "I... don't dare..." Dai Quan stumbled and asked what the note was like. The little saint smiled bitterly and said, "That one was from my study."
Dai Quan stood there in a daze for half a day, then sighed dejectedly: "My thoughts are gone, I really can't keep them anymore." He then concluded that the Liu family had done this themselves.
A few days later, at midnight, seven assassins appeared out of nowhere with the intention of assassinating the Empress Dowager. They were very skilled in martial arts. There were still some guards around the Empress Dowager for fear of hitting the mice and injuring the jade bottle.
Son, lead those assassins to the outer hall. I don’t want these assassins to all carry Western firearms and guns. If they haven’t taken out their guns in the house, they will be rude outside. The Queen Mother’s guards beat them to death in the blink of an eye. Some of them flew away from the eaves and tiles.
He wanted to go outside the palace to ask for help from the imperial guards, but he was beaten down after walking less than fifty steps. The palace courtyard was deep, and although the sound of these fighting guns was loud, it could not be heard outside the palace walls.
In just two-quarters of an hour, the Empress Dowager had been captured alive, and all the guards around her were dead. The old woman could only think that she was dead but not alive. She was so filled with grief and anger that she didn't know where to start. She started by yelling, "God damn these rebellious officials and traitors."
" Before she finished speaking, an assassin grabbed a dead eunuch's shoe and threw it into her mouth, gagging her. The other palace maids and eunuchs who didn't know kung fu were also tied up and blindfolded.
The assassin worked tirelessly. First, he carefully collected the fallen bullets and made sure there were many. Then he moved all the corpses to the courtyard, untied the skin bag from his waist and poured kerosene on it. An assassin came back inside and opened it with a knife.
He grabbed the ropes from the hands of the two eunuchs and withdrew. The leading assassin threw down the fire stick, and flames shot up into the sky.
The Forbidden City is indeed quite large. When the Royal Guards rushed in, the Queen Mother had been untied by the eunuchs and maids, and she was safe and sound. The body was burned beyond recognition and it was impossible to tell who it was. Naturally, the assassin had long since disappeared. Only the desk was left.
A piece of Xue Tao's paper, with the official Chinese style written on it: "Does the Ninth Prince know that you are Lao Shi?"
Naturally, these matters were not in charge of Zhao Cheng, but in charge of Feng Ziying. Feng Ziying ordered people to temporarily move the Empress Dowager to another palace. He read the note for a long time and sighed: "What Cong'er said is, the emperor