Ye Qinghuai was leaning on the armchair, holding her chin in one hand and gently clasping the desk with the other. Her eyes were always fixed on the secret report on the small table not far away.

The secret report briefly and comprehensively reported three things.

First, the Yingzhou Jiedushi secretly came to Beijing last night, stayed overnight in Gu's Mansion, and left Beijing again early this morning.

Second, Wang Lisong arrived in Beijing today. Before entering the city, he was ambushed by a group of men in black on the outskirts of Beijing. Wang Lisong was robbed, but the robbers did not hurt him, but released him not far from the carjacking.

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Third, the main force of the Zhongzhou Army, about 100,000 people, moved to Shengjing in the name of the exercise and was stationed at Shilipo, a hundred miles east of Shengjing.

These three things seemed unrelated, but Ye Qinghuai felt that they seemed to be connected by an invisible thread.

Wang Lisong's arrival in Beijing has been reported to the court today. According to the Chengtianmen agreement between Ye Qinghuai and Gu Shihai, tomorrow morning will be the day when Wang Lisong goes to the court to express his love.

What is Chen's situation? Of course, it's the truth about how he was imprisoned and why he missed the three-party trial.

Although the Chunwei fraud case had already ended with Shi Taiping's dismissal and exile, and the Third Division Trial had Qian Deliang, the minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, taking the blame before his death, the mastermind behind these two cases, Gu Shihai, is still firmly entrenched.

For Gu Shihai, perhaps as he said, it was just a matter of replacing one or two incompetent subordinates.

Wang Lisong's testimony is most likely to be the strongest evidence to directly bring down Gu Shihai.

Otherwise, Gu Shihai would not have targeted him several times.

But Gu Shihai obviously would not sit still and wait for death.

The unusual movements of the Zhongzhou Army are the best evidence.

Three days ago, Eagle Guards submitted a tip report, saying that an urgent secret message came from the Gu Mansion and was sent to the Zhongzhou Military Camp.

Dajing implemented separate control of civil and military affairs. In the state capital, the two heads of civil and military affairs, the governor and the military governor, were on equal footing.

In other words, local military power was completely in the hands of the Jiedushi envoys, who were generally appointed directly by the emperor.

Today, the governors of Zhongzhou and Yingzhou are all disciples of Gu Shihai. The Zhongzhou army moved around the capital, presumably at Gu Shihai's instruction, with the intention of putting pressure on the emperor.

If Ye Qinghuai cornered Gu Shihai, he would most likely order the Nine Gate Guards of Gyeonggi to open the city gates and welcome the Zhongzhou Army into the city in the name of the Qing Emperor.

At that time, Ye Qinghuai only had a Forbidden Army of more than 10,000 people that was not fully prepared, but he had to face hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.

It's like hitting an egg against a stone.

Ye Qinghuai frowned.

Gu Shihai has a strong nature, and it can be seen from his desperate choice during the Renshen Palace Incident that he is a man who would rather live in ruins than live in ruins.

Ye Qinghuai really couldn't say what he could do.

What's more, even if she dared to gamble, the courtiers would not allow her to be so adventurous and risk the fate of the country.

No one in the court knew about such a huge move by the Zhongzhou Army. And Gu Shihai's intention had already been revealed.

Ye Qinghuai could almost imagine that if Wang Lisong pointed out by name that Gu Shihai had used power for personal gain in the spring palace fraud and the three-division meeting to transfer contracts in the morning meeting tomorrow, the courtiers would probably support Gu Shihai one-sidedly, and most likely even accuse him again.

The question was pushed back to Wang Lisong. There was no chance that Wang Lisong, who had just been rehabilitated and returned to Beijing, would be sent to Leizhou again.

Ye Qinghuai clenched her fists and sighed. Today, she is far from being able to challenge Gu Shihai head-on.

She looked at the secret report from a distance, frowning.

As she looked at it, Ye Qinghuai suddenly discovered that there was an obvious strangeness in this report, which she should have noticed at first sight.

That is the description of the part about Wang Lisong’s robbery.

When Wang Lisong returned to Beijing this time, he was escorted by Leizhou Yamen on the surface, and secretly followed by Eagle Guards. He could kidnap people under the eyes of these two groups of people, and he could do it in the suburbs of Beijing. Apart from Gu Shihai, Ye Qing

I can't think of anyone else who has such ability.

But the strange thing is that he went to such great lengths to kidnap someone, but in the end he did nothing and just released him.

This left Ye Qinghuai puzzled.

Something must have happened that Ye Qinghuai didn't know about.

Ye Qinghuai sat alone in the Qinxian Hall for more than half an hour. Finally, she pushed the door open and said to Li Baoquan who was waiting outside: "Li Baoquan, at dawn tomorrow, go to the post house where Wang Lisong is staying to spread the message.

I want him to travel long distances at his old age and be tired from traveling and traveling, so I will allow him to rest for a few days before going to the palace to express his love. Then you bring him into the palace. If I want to see him, let him wait for me in Wenxuan Palace.

towards."

Li Baoquan didn't ask any more questions and agreed.

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The next day, after leaving Chao Ye Qinghuai, she strode to Wenxuan Hall.

Li Baoquan did not go to court with her today, but had been waiting outside Wenxuan Hall early.

"Where is the person? Have you brought him into the palace?" Ye Qinghuai asked hurriedly as soon as they met.

"Bring her in, wait in the main hall." Li Baoquan replied as he trotted beside her.

"What kind of trouble are you running into?" Ye Qinghuai asked again.

"When I return to Your Majesty, there will be no obstacles along the way. It will be very smooth."

Ye Qinghuai nodded. Seeing that she had reached the door of the main hall, she stopped and stood outside the door to straighten her clothes before walking inside.

There is an old man sitting on the side seat of the main hall, wearing a gray-brown cloth robe. His hair is half white, tied on the top of his head in a hairstyle commonly used by scholars, and the beard on his lips and chin is also somewhat white. Although he is over sixty years old,

, but the sitting posture is upright and energetic, without half of the decadence of an old man, nor the fatigue of a long journey.

Seeing Ye Qinghuai and Li Baoquan enter the door, he immediately stood up, saluted Ye Qinghuai and said, "The criminal Wang Lisong is here to see your majesty."

He was quite tall, and when he stood up he was taller than Ye Qinghuai. But when he bowed to Ye Qinghuai, there was a sense of sincere admiration in him.

Not flattery, not flattery, just simple admiration.

Ye Qinghuai felt a little excited.

After struggling for so long in this life, and hearing various words and deeds of Wang Lisong from so many people, today she finally saw the real Wang Lisong.

With just one glance, she was sure that she was the real Wang Lisong in front of her.

When she saw him, Ye Qinghuai's mind unconsciously thought of the plaque on the door of Wenxin Hall with Wang Lisong's personal inscription.

Words are like people.

It is indeed the ambition of a green pine and the style of a gentleman.

Ye Qinghuai hurriedly stepped forward to support his arm and said: "Please invite the wine sacrifices quickly, there are no guilty ministers here. I have found out the case of Chunwei fraud, and it was not the fault of the wine sacrifices. I have been wronged by the wine sacrifices these days."

However, Wang Lisong refused to straighten up and said: "The crime of the old minister is not Chunwei, but that as a minister, not only could I not share your majesty's worries, but I made your majesty worry instead. It is really a big mistake."
Chapter completed!