late Qing Dynasty arrest

In the morning, Li Guolou went to the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to visit his old superior, Bao Yi. He couldn't forget the well digger when he got promoted and got rich. When he passed by the second hall, he chatted with Zhu Danyu for a while.Zhu Danyu was not admitted to the Jinshi, but he was not disappointed. He was wearing a bag, and he was quite eye-catching in a nine-rank official robe.

In more than half a year, Li Guolou was promoted from an official to a senior official of the fifth rank. He was already well-known in the Ministry of Punishment, and everyone could chat a few words.Li Guolou invited his old friend to have a drink together at night. After walking around the old friend's office, he went to the compound of the place where he fought.

Seeing all the familiar things in front of him, Li Guolou couldn't let go, he missed the life of being a policeman, as long as he caught criminals, he didn't need to guess the thoughts of several immediate bosses.Now you can’t speak dirty words, and you have to spend time every day to practice writing Manchu. This earthworm-like writing is useless.

"Head! What are you thinking?" Gao Yao Wuyun bluffed and shouted.

An ear-shattering sound brought Li Guolou back to his senses, turned his head to look at the people in the room, and smiled slightly: "What's the matter, look at the diorama. I haven't recognized me for a few days."

"Master Li, I have fulfilled my mission and caught the criminal this time, and I will be rewarded with a job." Jin Erzi pouted, wanting to climb high, and bowed his head to fill up the tea for Li Guolou.

Jin Erzi and Zhang Junjie are lurking in Gaojiazhuang, trying to catch the real culprit who killed Gao Xiuxiu and the maid Aihua, and clean up the grievances of the little scholar Gu Shuimo who suffered an injustice.As expected, the real culprit was Gao Xiuxiu's cousin Gao Shengguan.Gao Shengguan, who was used to hunting wild food in prostitutes every month, couldn't bear the long lonely night, and finally went out to have a good time, and used the gold and silver jewelry looted from Gao Xiuxiu's boudoir on prostitutes, and was caught by Jin Erzi and Zhang Haojie. Appear.

"Stop! Yinlai, don't talk about it. If you make an opening, Mr. Bao will lose talents. Even if I want someone, I can't poach someone in the Ministry of Punishment. Do you think this is the reason!" Li Guolou refused to let Jin Erzi Having said that, stability and unity are the general direction, and building your own team is not something that can be achieved overnight.

The eccentric and selfish Jin Erzi immediately understood and thought of opening the back door to talk to "Sister Xiaofang" about the situation in the world, and immediately changed his tone and said: "Master Li has been promoted, so please buy us a glass of wine, chicken thief! Knock the door! I'm blind!" Eye, if I knew why today, I should have used my muscles and bones when I met you for the first time;;;;;; Ouch! Lord Li, please forgive me!"

The people next to him roared with laughter. It turned out that Li Guolou stretched out his right hand and held Jin Erzi's right hand.Jin Erzi couldn't take it anymore, he grinned his teeth in pain, squatted on the ground, and begged for mercy.

"Gold and silver, when did you gain ten catties of flesh? Come and tell me about your broken hands." Li Guolou was young and strong, with superb hand strength. Few people in the Criminal Department surpassed him.

After joking with the old subordinates in the past, Li Guolou sat in his original seat, accompanied by only a few old subordinates in the room, Ai Hai, Jin Erzi, Zhang Haojie and Gao Yao Wuyun.In fact, Li Guolou had already transferred two of his former cronies, Cheng Kun and Liu Yu, to his house to be his bodyguards. This kind of thing was tacitly understood by everyone, and they would not expose Li Guolou's use of people for personal gain.Now Li Guolou no longer talks about business in Jianghu with his brothers from Tianzihao.How many shady things are hidden in the deepest part of the soul, and will not be shown off.

"Hey, I really can't bear to be here, the suffering behind the scenery is so sad." Li Guolou took a sip of tea, thinking of the good old days.But in exchange for the mocking sound of chi chi chi, who would believe his words, it would be a hell.

Li Guolou squinted, and said dissatisfiedly: "What do you know? I am competing with people with high IQs now, not to see how capable you are, and you will work hard. These are farts. You must first have a degree, and then you must be good at writing. Good words, this is the only way to talk about ideals and ambitions. People like you who can only do things have no hope of being promoted. Even if I promote you in the future, I will still be a ninth-rank sesame official."

Zhang Haojie said with a smile: "Master Li, Captain Ai has a bald head and has no hope of being promoted. My image is quite good, and the ninth-rank official is my goal. Master Li give me a hand, I only want the ninth-rank official hat."

"Putting it down, if you want to be promoted, you should be promoted first brother Caijin. It's your turn." Gao Yao Wuyun came up to Li Guolou to light a cigarette, but he refused.

"Hey;;;;;;;" Li Guolou glanced and said: "Captain Gao Yao, if only that bastard's writing can be as good as his mouth. Forget it, let that bastard buy one Honorary title, I will be a red-capped businessman in the future."

Gao Yao and Wu Yun's brows were beaming with joy, the money to buy the official hat was of course paid by Li Guolou.Although it is a false title, as long as there is a place to hang on to, who knows what's tricky inside?You can still wear a tiger skin to pretend to be big.

Li Guolou is rewarding his subordinates, each of them gives a future, Ai Hai still sits in the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and asks Bao to promote Ai Hai together, accepting both black and white, and accepting protection fees, so as to contain Yao Cuo's dominance.How can he let the "big brother" control the underworld in the capital, and he must have a confidant to watch over the yamen of the Ministry of Justice for him. This is not because he doesn't trust Yao Cuo, but because of the way of being an official, checks and balances of power can be harmonious. Li Guolou has long been familiar with the manipulation of power and tactics.

Li Guolou and Ai Hai were the only ones left in the room, and Li Guolou said in a low voice: "Captain Ai gave you a task. Don't interfere with the closure of craftsmen in the Chaoyang Development Zone. Don't bother with black and white. I have my own responsibility." claims."

"No, whoever will go out of business." Ai Hai was thinking in his mind that there was no sign of going out of business due to the bustling scene on the construction site in Chaoyang area.

Li Guolou said: "Not now, it won't be able to last until the second half of the year, and it will stop in the second half of next year. If this piece of fat is in our hands, how can we make a lot of money for outsiders. Others Don't worry about it, you'll be bored sitting down there."

Ai Hai touched his bald forehead and smiled cunningly. His insatiable greed gave him a bigger appetite. With Li Guolou backing him up, who would dare not give him the face of the "Thirteen Taibao"? .

At noon, Li Guolou came to Baozhi's room to entertain Mao Changxi and other six room teachers. Each of them gave a generous gift. The answer to his cheating in the scientific examination was handed to him by his teacher Mao Changxi himself. Some of these six teachers came from the Prime Minister's Office The yamen, some from the Imperial Academy, and the other six yamen, although not as high and powerful as Li Hongzao, are also Mesozoic forces, and they are all great talents who have read sage books, and their ranks are at least four.

A table of people tacitly talked about poetry without mentioning a word about the examination room. Everyone was dirty and earned a little money by selling a few Jinshi titles.Disciples are powers standing in the court, and the power of mutual horns depends on the group of disciples below to have a foothold.

The affiliation of these six house masters is also different, there are people from Qingliu school, conservative school, Westernization school, and people who are directly named by the empress dowagers of the two palaces, so at the banquet, they listen to ditties and drink flower wine , Elegant and sentimental, other things are out of the question.

At the end of the banquet, Li Guolou bid farewell to the six teachers, and Mao Changxi, who was left behind, stayed alone. Instead of stepping into the carriage, he turned back to Baozhi's room and had a private conversation with Li Guolou.

"Guolou, let me tell you something. Weng Tonghe of the Qing school took Xu Tong, the minister of rites, to the palace in the morning to complain to the Empress Dowager Cixi. It was because of Prince Gong's copy yesterday, and what you proposed to the emperor to be admitted to Jinshi You have to be prepared in your heart that when the Empress Dowager asks you tomorrow, you have to think about a good answer, so that you can do it yourself." Mao Changxi was clearly a member of the Qing school, but secretly betrayed his mentor Li Hongzao.

"Thank you, Lord Mao, for your care. I will definitely come to pay my respects in the future." Li Guolou bid farewell to Mao Changxi, feeling deeply moved. In the upper study yesterday, Weng Tonghe only had a few arguments with him and Prince Gong when the emperor was not here.When the emperor came, he didn't say a word, he didn't refute Prince Gong's brochure about studying abroad, and he didn't express his dissatisfaction with his suggestion that the students who failed the exam should learn foreign languages. "Stay in the middle!"

Weng Tonghe went so far as to hide the truth from the emperor, and even recruited the obstinate and incomprehensible servant of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Tong, to sue the Empress Dowager Cixi, and dragged him into the water as well.The Empress Dowager Cixi likes to use stereotyped essays when she writes articles. What do you think of him, a new science explorer, in this matter?Li Guolou was thinking, immersed in the intrigue in the court, never thought that there would be a life-and-death contest in the early court for the first time in his life.I didn't think about handing in the booklet at first, but it seems that I will write half a night of articles again tonight.He will never compromise on the matter of government-sponsored study abroad. As for letting the students who fail the exam to learn foreign languages, it depends on the face of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Is Weng Tonghe still the emperor's teacher?He is not afraid at all of betraying Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun, the Tongzhi Emperor will be in charge next month. "Pro-government!" Suddenly, Li Guolou's whole body trembled, and he suddenly came to his senses. As a god catcher, he has a keenness that ordinary people don't have, and he discovered the clues of a major conspiracy.

Li Guolou stood up, pushed open the door of Cuiyun Pavilion, found Chen Xiangfang, and said, "Grandma, I'm going to enter the palace once to see the emperor. If you come back late at night, please entertain the guests." After Li Guolou didn't wait for Chen Xiangfang to react, he rushed out of the gate of Baozhi's room. Even if there was a sea of ​​swords and fire in front of him, he would go there. No one who could count him against him had yet to be born.

Li Guolou came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to have an audience with the Emperor Tongzhi in the afternoon. It was impossible to see the figure of the Emperor.But who is Li Guolou?The eunuchs are all his friends. After some bargaining, under the guidance of the eunuch who led the way, he walked for more than an hour. In a theater, Li Guolou finally kowtowed to his master, Emperor Tongzhi, and Empress Arut. .

There were not many people who could interrupt Emperor Tongzhi's elegant performance. Although he was very unhappy, he accepted Li Guolou's sincere apology.

"What's the matter with Li Guolou?" Emperor Tongzhi asked absent-mindedly, looking at the actors who had stopped performing on the stage downstairs.

Li Guolou bowed and said: "Slave, when I go home, I think that next month when the emperor will be in charge, the slave will not be around and cannot congratulate the emperor and queen. I feel anxious, so I will send congratulatory gifts to the emperor and queen earlier." Said After Li Guolou took out the gift list from the sleeve cage and presented it, the eunuch Liu Deyin handed the gift list to Emperor Tongzhi.

"Oh;;;;;;; such a thing!" Emperor Tongzhi opened the gift list casually, and at first glance, there was a small note pasted in the gift list, "It's urgent, so I'll play it alone!"

Emperor Tongzhi gathered up the gift list, still holding it in his hand, and did not hand it to the eunuch beside him. He smiled and said, "Empress, you listen to the play first, I want to go out and talk to Li Guolou for a while."

Empress Alut nodded to Li Guolou, and said in a cheerful voice, "Your Majesty, I will order another play in the palace, and we will watch it together when you come back."

"Well, okay!" Emperor Tongzhi stepped down the theater building, dragging four young eunuchs behind him, with Li Guolou walking last.

In the gazebo in the garden, Emperor Tongzhi retreated the four eunuchs who followed him, sat on a rosewood stool inlaid with jade and said, "Why is Li Guolou so mysterious? What's the matter?"

Li Guolou stood beside him with his head bowed, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I will tell you the truth. In the past, my servant was a god catcher who specialized in playing cat-and-mouse games with bad guys, so when others were playing tricks behind their backs, this servant could understand at a glance. A conspiracy bigger than the sky has already been plotted against the emperor, didn't you find out, Your Majesty?"

"Talk, forgive your innocence!" Emperor Tongzhi looked at the four eunuchs standing still in the distance, all of them understood the rules, and no one looked up.

Li Guolou said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do the empress dowagers of the two palaces want you to build the Longevity Hill project before the empress dowagers are willing to remove the curtains? And did your teacher ask you to let the two empress dowagers do the first thing when you are in charge? Take care of your life and promulgate a decree to rebuild the Old Summer Palace?"

"That's right! Li Guolou, how do you know the secrets in the palace?" Emperor Tongzhi was a little angry, with a tone of reproach.

Li Guolou said in a low voice: "The emperor personally rewarded me with the supervision of the Longevity Hill project, and I reasoned out the following things. This is a huge conspiracy, the emperor. As long as you promulgate this decree, the world will be in chaos. The local officials will come forward to oppose it. No one will support you to take charge of the government. Everyone will belittle you. At that time, the empress dowagers of the two palaces will come forward to settle this matter, saying that you are too young and need someone to supervise you. The curtain will be hung up again. The emperor will still be listening to games and playing games as he is now, waiting for the day when the empress dowager is buried, and then he will have a bright future."

"Bold!" Emperor Tongzhi stood up angrily and scolded Li Guolou, causing Li Guolou to tremble and turn over and kneel on the ground.

"My lord, I risk my life to see you. Whoever makes this suggestion to the emperor should be killed! Your majesty, everything can be done in secret. Since the management of the Longevity Hill project has been handed over to the servants, why make it known to everyone in the world."

Li Guolou kowtowed three times, breaking his forehead and forming a tumor on his forehead.Loyalty is good for deeds, and it is rare for him to be a diehard.