The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 780
According to the rules of the dynasty, for the first seven days after the death of the emperor, all officials in Beijing had to enter the palace to guard the system, and then they would take turns to guard the system according to the actual situation, so as not to affect the important affairs of the government.

That afternoon, Jiao Shun was summoned by the empress to the Qianqing Palace for interrogation just after the rotation system ended—in order to avoid suspicion, the beating was still in the name of the emperor.

It hadn't been long since he entered the harem last time, but this time it was obvious that the atmosphere in the palace was a bit oppressive, and the little eunuch who led the way was not as usual, fawning on Jiao Shun in every possible way.

It seems that the recent joint pressure from King Zhongshun and his courtiers has been effective, and it's time to pour another barrel of oil on it.

It was still in that side hall, the difference was that this time, besides the empress, concubine Wu Gui and the prince, there were also many virtuous concubines Jia Yuanchun.

She lowered her eyebrows and stood quietly beside the queen, even though Jiao Shun walked in from the outside, she never raised her head to look at her.

This is probably the most unlike thing between her and Tanchun. She is clearly a stunner in the Sixth Palace, but she is able to calm down and not overwhelm others—and Tanchun is always unwilling to be unknown no matter when and where.

In other words, Jia Yuanchun returned to the core of power this time, did he regain the trust of the queen and Wu Guifei, or was he forced to use her under pressure?

Jiao Shun was thinking about these things, and at the same time, he respectfully stepped forward to pay respects one by one.

"Lord Jiao, let's get down without courtesy."

Perhaps it was because of the greatest pressure that the empress looked haggard. After Jiao Shun got up, she was about to speak, but Concubine Wu rushed to ask: "Master Jiao, did you ever give up on the errand that I entrusted to you last time?" Come up with a new method? If you keep procrastinating like this, I'm afraid you will be the first one to get no good fruit!"

"Mother concubine."

The prince called softly, apparently wanting to remind his biological mother to pay attention to the superiority and inferiority.

Concubine Wu Gui turned her head and gave him a sideways glance, but she did not speak any more.

But Jiao Shun thought for a while, but he took the initiative to ask back: "Dare to ask your mother, is there any progress in the case of poisoning?"

"What progress can be made?!"

Upon hearing this, Concubine Wu Guifei felt that her nose was not her nose and her face was not her face, and she said angrily: "That lowly servant girl has been biting her to death and refused to speak, but I don't know what to do with her, I'm afraid it won't make any progress if I change it! "

Although she said it with absolute certainty, how could she, a boudoir woman, know anything about execution and interrogation?But she also refused to let others intervene, and insisted on doing it herself, otherwise, even though Concubine Rong was a bit tough, she would never have made it to the present.

After finishing speaking, she glared at Jiao Shun impatiently: "Now it's me and the empress who are asking you for countermeasures!"

This was also within Jiao Shun's expectation.

He took a deep breath, bowed his hands solemnly and said: "I think that right now, the relevant people may be arrested and taken into custody. When the three Caos confront the case, I am not afraid that the truth will not be found out!"

"Arrested and detained as a whole?"

The queen's hands wrapped in the white fox fur suddenly tightened, and she hesitated: "You mean, even King Zhongshun wants to..."

Before Jiao Shun could reply, she shook her head again and again: "After all, he is a majestic uncle, so how can we touch him without real evidence?"

Concubine Wu Guifei only belatedly understood at this time what Jiao Shun's words meant.

At first, her eyes were bright, and she looked eager to try, but when she heard that the queen disapproved of arresting King Zhongshun, her face changed into a look of hesitation.

At this time, Jiao Shun further advised: "If we want to investigate and deal with it at this time, we only need a team of dragon guards to arrest him without a fight. But if we continue to condone and raise the traitor, we fear that it will be too late for him to repent."

After hearing this, Concubine Wu Gui felt that it was reasonable, she gritted her teeth and wanted to get angry.

"This……"

The queen hesitated for a while, then shook her head and said: "Now it's still in the period of national mourning. If there is any real evidence, it's fine. Now it's just your conjecture. If there is no real evidence, how should you deal with it? I'm afraid that the court will There will be criticism."

Concubine Wu's aura plummeted again, a loyal and obedient king would be fine, if she offended those big turbans, how many troubles would arise, thinking about all the things she had encountered when she accompanied the queen to listen to the government these days, she fought again Back off.

Jiao Shun tried to persuade him a few more words, but seeing that the queen insisted on refusing, he had no choice but to say: "Since that's the case, the minister can only make some fuss about public opinion - I used to rely too much on newspapers, so I have no problem facing the suppression of scholars." There is no way to fight back, this time I plan to start with the people, first create a certain amount of noise in the streets and alleys, and then take the opportunity to attack."

With that said, a few more specific measures were added.

The queen listened quite seriously, but Concubine Wu Gui curled her lips frequently, and the public opinion in the newspapers was nothing more than a few words, could it really stop King Zhongshun?

If Jiao Changqing has such little ability, how can he be expected to assist the prince in the future?

If she hadn't listened to Jia Yuanchun's analysis before, knowing that abandoning Jiao Shun at this time would not help the matter, and might even be self-defeating, she decided that she couldn't help but want to sell the emperor's New Deal.

Concubine Wu Guifei changed her sitting position a few times impetuously, her eyes fell on Jia Yuanchun inadvertently, and she suddenly said, "I don't know, Sister Xiande, what do you think of Master Jiao's countermeasures?"

"It seems feasible."

Jia Yuanchun gave her a slight salute, and analyzed without any emotion: "But the former is too desperate. Although there is a chance to cut the mess quickly, if there is any disagreement, he will be backlashed; as for the latter...Although King Zhongshun has always been domineering, but Most of them are aimed at aristocratic families, and the public doesn't have deep feelings, I'm afraid it may not be able to form a raging public opinion."

These words almost completely negate Jiao Shun's proposition.

Concubine Wu Guifei gave Jiao Shun a sideways glance with a smile on her lips, she said in her heart that she deliberately kept him away from Concubine Xiande, but she didn't expect that it was Concubine Xiande who made trouble first, now it depends on how the two of them get along!
Regarding the arrest of King Zhongshun, although the Queen's opinion is the same as Jia Yuanchun's, but seeing what she said so bluntly, she quickly smoothed things over and said: "This matter is inherently difficult, and it is very rare for Lord Jiao to come up with a countermeasure." .”

"What the lady said is."

Jia Yuanchun bowed and saluted, and immediately returned to the previous state of looking at his eyes, nose, nose, and heart, as if he was in front of the public.

But her heart is not idle.

Contrary to Concubine Wu, after carefully understanding Jiao Shun's contribution to the New Deal and his several battles with civil servants, Jia Yuanchun believed in Jiao Shun's ability.

But it was also because of this that she couldn't understand why Jiao Shun had fallen so badly recently.

Could it be that Feng Rui was frustrated by the current situation?

Or is there something else hidden in it?
She was suspicious here, but Jiao Shun bowed to the ground and said solemnly: "Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty, even if I am ruined, I will never sit back and watch the great situation created by the Holy Majesty be ruined!"

Such an expression of loyalty made the queen quite gratified, but it could not make the queen feel at ease.

So he tried his best to say a few words to Jiao Shun, and ordered him to leave the palace.

Not to mention how the three women discussed after Jiao Shun left.

However, after Jiao Shun left Qianqing Palace, looking at the blood-red clouds in the sky, he felt quite "spiritually open" in his heart.

To the Queen and the others, it was just a futile discussion, but to Jiao Shun, it was like blowing the horn of immortality!
Because after leaving the palace, he will take the initiative to pass today's performance, especially the sentence 'only a team of dragon guards can catch him without a fight' to King Zhongshun's ears.

It's come to this point, who would be willing to stand still?
Even if the queen vetoed his proposal, King Zhongshun would definitely feel suspicious and fidgety, and then he would try every means to increase his sense of security and seek a force that could counter it.

At that time, there may be another old friend who will make a shining appearance. After all, in order to reduce the suspicion of the emperor, King Zhongshun mainly targeted the generals in the army besides the nobles.

It can be said that he has offended the three major battalions in the capital all over the place. If he hastily wanted to recruit an armed force of his own, he might only have the idea of ​​attacking the Tianjin Wei Navy Division.

And this is exactly what Jiao Shun expected.

As the saying goes, "If you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy." Only by letting King Zhongshun show his rampant and domineering side can he stand up and turn the tide. King Qin rescued him.

As for whether King Zhongshun will see through this...

First of all, the picket team has always been ignored. Even if they go out of the city to shoot targets, they are used in the name of testing guns and repairing guns. It is impossible for King Zhongshun to predict that Jiao Shun will lead a group of "craftsmen" to rebel against him.

Secondly, this is a conspiracy. Even if King Zhongshun knows what he has done, it may arouse more fear in the palace. For the sake of his own life, he will never do nothing.

And as long as Jiao Shun starts this way, Jiao Shun is sure to make him unable to turn back!
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The sun is setting, Zijin Street Jiaofu.

Xiren went to the latrine to clean his hands, then went to the small kitchen to wash his hands, absentmindedly turned back to the door of the main room, and heard the sound of shuffling the cards inside, he knew that the horse tag game would continue for a while.

After thinking about it, she didn't rush in, but stood in front of the railing and stared at the not-so-big yard in a daze.

At this time, a person came out from the back room through the curtain and saw her on the porch. He was taken aback for a moment, then stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Xi Ren, what are you doing outside?"

Xiren looked back, but it turned out to be Ping'er.

The two were good sisters at the beginning, and they comforted Yuanyang together in the original book, but Xiren opened his mouth at this time, not knowing what to call Ping'er.

Ping'er saw her embarrassment, and immediately smiled and said: "What kind of friendship are we sisters? If you don't understand it, you will have a relationship with me, and I will not obey!"

Xiren heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said helplessly, "Where is it that I want to have sex with you? It's really different now..."

"It's really different today."

Ping'er snatched away her words, and asked curiously half-truthfully, "You've always been clinging to Baoyu, why did you follow Miss San to our house today?"

Xiren didn't rush to explain, but raised his finger and pointed inside: "You don't need to play cards with me anymore?"

"Siqi just replaced me."

"Then, let's go to your room and talk."

Naturally, Ping'er would not refuse Xiren's proposal, so he took her to the west wing and ordered Yindie to offer tea.

Xiren didn't dare to take it too seriously, so he got up and took it with both hands and put it on the table. Taking advantage of the situation, he scanned the layout of the west wing room, and saw that the piles of piles were not as good as Yihong Courtyard, but they were still better. I have passed Aunt Zhao a lot.

She was envious secretly in her heart, but she also knew that even if she married with the third girl, she would never overshadow the childhood friendship between Ping'er and Uncle Jiao.

But who made it useless to raise him from childhood? !
She calmed down, and then she told about Baoyu going south with Jia Zheng, and Mrs. Pianwang, inspired by the mandarin ducks, intentionally asked the old lady's maid to serve the second girl in the temple, and incidentally burn incense and pray for the old lady.

Speaking of Baoyu's failure to pretend to be sick, and being obsessed with becoming a monk, when discussing with herself some Buddhist principles, she felt aggrieved and annoyed, and couldn't help wiping the corners of her eyes with a veil.

She didn't see any response from Ping'er for a while, she raised her head in doubt, but saw Ping'er muttering something thoughtfully?
"what happened?"

"It turns out that mandarin ducks also..."

Ping'er stopped talking, then hurriedly changed his words: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I just didn't expect that Second Master Bao still hasn't given up the idea of ​​becoming a monk until now."

"How can he be sure? It's not just a while!"

Xiren smiled wryly and shook his head, and then he got to the point: "Because he really couldn't be counted on, I found the third girl. I hope the third girl can help turn things around. It's just more difficult and tiring. I would rather die than refuse." Learn from Miaoyu to be a fake nun!"

"What did the three girls say?"

"The third girl said... said..."

Xiren turned his head a little ashamedly, and said in a low voice, "It is said that there is a shortage of people around me, and I am going to ask my wife to ask me to go."

"This……"

Ping'er naturally understood what Tanchun meant by the lack of people around him, and since Xiren had already followed, needless to say, he must have agreed.

After a while, she couldn't help shaking her head and said, "I didn't expect that even you..."

Xiren heard that there was something in her words, and wondered: "What do you mean by sister?"

In fact, in the past, she and Ping'er mostly referred to each other as "you and me", but now even if Ping'er condescends, she dare not sit on an equal footing with Ping'er anymore.

"It's nothing."

Ping'er waved his hand, and reminded vaguely: "Since you have made up your mind to be with the third girl, then show your single-minded energy when you were in Yihong Courtyard, and don't slack off just because you are sad and frustrated."

"Of course I understand that."

Xiren saw that she was willing to mention something to him, so he cautiously asked: "I don't know if there is any taboo in this house. My sister told me that I should keep it in my heart at all times, so as not to accidentally bump into the muzzle of the gun."

"There are no taboos."

Ping'er smiled and said: "It's just that the rules are stricter, but the master has clear rewards and punishments. If you do well, rewards are absolutely indispensable."

She knew what Xiren really wanted, so she said again: "Master is planning to build another courtyard nearby so that he can marry the third girl. When the time comes, there will naturally be more opportunities for single-family households than here."

After hearing this, Xiren's uneasiness instantly went away by seven points.

What she was most worried about was that she couldn't compete with the old man in the mansion, but if she built another house alone, the only one who could compete with her would be the servant, so the chances of raising her aunt would naturally be much higher.

Just as she was happy, she suddenly heard a commotion outside, Ping'er turned her head to listen for a moment, then hurriedly pulled her up and said: "Go, go, the master is back!"

(End of this chapter)