laughing soul

Huan Tian is not easy to fool, Ren Li Ci's mouth is worn out and he refuses to leave Chu Yu half a step. I don't know where this child heard the rumors. Those who enter the Forbidden City and wear official uniforms are not good things. The body is the root of all evil.

The words are not rude, but Qiu Sheng, as a rising flower among the emperors of all dynasties, has not had time to degenerate into the head of evil spirits. Seeing this fat man who doesn't know what imperial power is messing around, he suddenly understands that he just watched What is the mood of the ministers who are jumping all over the world?

I can't wait to find a stick on the spot and beat him directly.

It's just that it depends on the master to beat the dog. Chu Yu stood beside him with a master's face, and Qiu Sheng scratched his palms not to show his anger, so he had to wink at the master frequently.

"Come on, Xiaotian, this brother is a very kind person, you go out and wait," Chu Yu opened his mouth when Qiu Sheng's eyes fell on him for the sixth time, who knew that the little fat man was focused on guarding himself According to the clear rules, he hesitated and refused to leave.

The pavilion master sighed softly, and resorted to his trump card: "Please trouble Eunuch Li to take him to the imperial dining room."

That's what pulled people away.

Finally, there were only two people left in the huge room. Qiu Sheng bowed his hands and moved to the table to offer tea: "Master uses tea."

"Your Majesty is very humble and docile, don't you know that he is also like this in front of his courtiers?"

Qiu Sheng used the gaiwan to make tea, and when he heard this, he raised his head and glanced at him, but he didn't notice it for a moment, and burned his hands.

Chu Yuduan handed over a piece of handkerchief slowly with a high-spirited expression: "If the king's prestige is not established, he will be destroyed, and if the minister's responsibility is not heavy, then he will be light. Don't you worry that your majesty will calm down the world in the future, and the external and internal troubles will be eliminated. Civil servants and military generals are still today Is it the wind? It may be too late to show the majesty of the monarch at that time."

Qiu Sheng pushed a cup of tea to him, and said lightly: "After the Quartet is settled, how to establish the national regulations and cultivate the national customs will have nothing to do with me anymore."

Chu Yu was taken aback for a moment: "Why did Your Majesty say that?"

Qiu Sheng smiled bitterly: "Master is in the omniscient Tianyuan Temple, so he must have heard of it... I have inherited this son, it is all by accident, and governing the country is not what I like. Not good at fighting for power and profit. Originally, I wanted to eat official money and wait to die in a side of mountains and rivers, but now the territory of Da Viet is in danger of being torn apart. The family and the country are in a place where there is no place, so I took up this burden. If I can preserve the country left by my ancestors with great love, I will pass it on to my nephew, and leave some virtuous talents to help him. Restoring the old capital can be regarded as an end to a worry."

Chu Yu twirled the teacup to play as usual, and said lightly: "Your Majesty wants to be transparent."

"What's transparent... It's just that I didn't do some serious things in the past and deviated from the orthodoxy."

"Your Majesty, if you can pick up and let go, you have already realized the Dao."

Qiu Sheng smiled wryly and shook his head slightly: "What do you understand? Only when you have won the real power and won the world, enjoyed all the glory and wealth, rich clothes and food, and clearly understood what is poor and rich, what is expensive and what is cheap, knowing that The suffering people who have left their hometowns can still let go of the gold and silver treasures they hold in their hands. This is the way. First, they have never experienced the suffering of the people and only know how to be happy and happy. Second, they have never realized the benefits of high status and power. In the future, there are still worries about the relationship between people in the mundane world, and just relying on any one of them should be remade, so how can you be enlightened?"

Mouth full of bitterness, unable to swallow another sip of tea, I had to imitate the opposite person and turn the cup together: "It is clear that I am afraid of the pain of princes and generals killing each other and killing their relatives, it is running away with their heads in their hands, and it is definitely not enlightenment."

Chu Yu originally wanted to smile and relieve Qiu Sheng's sorrow, but the flesh on his face was covered with a thick layer, and the face behind the mask was wearing a half-true smile, but the expression was very ugly The skinny smile is not.

It doesn't matter, anyway, Qiu Sheng doesn't look at him at all.

"Fame and wealth are shackles, and you are in the royal family. The shackles are inlaid with gold and silver, which makes people jealous. Your Majesty is already a dragon and phoenix among men if he escapes this layer of shackles. Why should you belittle yourself?"

Seeing Qiu Sheng raised his scarlet eyes, Chu Yu reached out and poured tea for him: "Don't your majesty want to hear how to expand the national treasury, and why Su Wanyue's sailors are safe?"

Such emotions often linger in my heart, and I have a backlog of illnesses on weekdays. Qiu Sheng shook his head and turned the page. He stabilized his mind and said: "Please enlighten me, Master."

Chu Yu: "As for the state treasury matter, although Tianyuan Temple has the means to reach the sky, it has never actually entered the capital to have a look. In this way, what the poor monk said is based on half or six points of evidence supplemented by his own speculation, and the words are inappropriate. Your Majesty forgives."

Qiu Sheng looked up at this monk with hair and practiced, and understood that the other party was beckoning him to provide a more detailed situation of the royal family in Beijing, so as to save Tianyuan Temple the trouble, and replied: "Master, but let me tell you first, if there is anything wrong, I will Let the master know."

Chu Yu: "Thank you, Your Majesty. Since your Majesty has participated in the Northwest Army's Weizhou campaign, and has expert advice by his side, he naturally knows that the sulfur charcoal wood and soap medicine Ling and other flints used to make red blood are produced in Kunlun Mountains. , because of the low survival rate and low output of the mother tree nansulfur, the price is high. Huge profits can lead to warriors, but the historical records recorded in the past few hundred years show that almost no one has used these two types of flint, so that the residents live and work in peace In the prosperous age, before the war started, it is probably of no great use, and the market demand is not large; secondly, I wonder if Your Majesty knows that there is a Cuiwei Pavilion on Kunlun Mountain."

Qiu Sheng: "There was a general who once told me that the people living on Kunlun Mountain were all descendants of Jiuli, and they had a deep blood feud with me, Dayue. And the generals in the Cuiwei Pavilion, I heard that all of them were extremely vicious and vicious. Guarding the mountain is like guarding your life."

Chu Yu's mind froze. Among the generals with well-developed limbs and simple minds, only Fang Jiu was able to know a thing or two about the details of Cui Wei Pavilion, so he told him?Did he ever say, what is the name of the Pavilion Master?

"He also said that there is a pavilion master who is the leader of this group of madmen. He seems to be an old man, with skin and hair all over his body, just like a big horse monkey."

Well, Fang Jiu's skin can't be kept anymore.

"These are trivial matters, and His Majesty does not need to take them to heart. Combining these two conditions, the results of one, one, and two are obtained. It is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to sneak things from Kunlun Mountain under Cui Weige's nose." , There is no life to earn money. Beili has made red blood through some unspeakable channels, and the Nanman and Western soldiers are coming to the city, and they are not the object of the transaction."

"What does the master mean?"

"Your Majesty, take a long-term view. Now that the flames are everywhere, apart from Da Yue, who is the most worried and fearful?"

Qiu Sheng understood: "Loulan, Guijue Kingdom."

Both Loulan and Guijue Kingdom are small countries on the border of Da Viet. The former is close to the Beili garrison, while the latter is close to the Nanman.The reason why the North and South and the Western Navy fought against the Central Plains with all their strength and put these two countries aside, ordinary people will have the answer when they think about it with the back of their heads.

There is a pure interest relationship between countries. No one wants to drag a helpless ally when their lives are hanging by a thread.Latu and shaman Chuanmu are smarter than the other, not to mention the navy from all over the world who has a think tank of the yellow-haired man.

After eating the big fish and gnawing on the small shrimps, how can they escape when the time comes to wash the border city with blood?

"Exactly, it is no exaggeration to say that the sense of crisis in these two countries is even heavier than your Majesty. Tell me, who is going to be beheaded in a blink of an eye and who is tied aside and knows that he is next?" More afraid? Usually the one who wets his pants is always the latter."

Qiu Sheng didn't like this metaphor very much, so he grunted and didn't answer.

Chu Yu: "Attacking soldiers and attacking the city must be led by attacking the mind. Since these young men have no sense of security, and want to run away instead of carrying steel swords and bloody battles every day when they fall asleep, then His Majesty will give them a sense of security." That's it."

Qiu Sheng was stunned: "Sell them the price doubled? But once that happens, do you have the thought, aside from talking about it, will the number of enemies who are capable of attacking the city with sharp knives increase greatly in the near future?"

Chu Yu smiled: "Your Majesty, who asked you to sell the real thing to them?"

Qiu Sheng raised his brows, and after a while, he frowned deeper and tighter: "Aren't they people who are proficient in this way? If people find out and turn their faces, wouldn't Da Yue suffer from the enemy?"

"Forgive me, Your Majesty. The poor monk was wrong and accurate. He should say 'you don't have to sell them bombs that can explode'. There are mountain people outside the mountains, and there are people outside the mountains. As long as you mix a little bit of other things in it, that's it. It's just a pile of waste soil, which can grow flowers and vegetables, but it will never explode. If you are not a member of Cuiwei Pavilion, you will never be able to detect it. It is colorless, tasteless, invisible, and traceless. All senses are sealed in front of this thing. Except for the inborn perception and the experience gained from long-term training, no precise instrument will work.”

Qiu Sheng rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, then nodded slowly: "It is feasible in this way, but I have never lived with that Cui Wei Pavilion, and I am the descendant of his family who destroyed the country and a deadly enemy. Those who enter by mistake will die a hundred times more miserable."

"Tianyuan Temple came forward on behalf of His Majesty. Not only these two kinds of rare treasures, but also the rest of the flints can also be sold. This poor monk just begs His Majesty to nod and leave all the details to Tianyuan Temple. Su Wanyue..."

"Your Majesty! An abnormal situation has been discovered at the Jinyiwei. Lord Jiang and Lord Lian are already waiting for His Majesty in the Palace of Political Affairs. Lord Jiang has repeatedly asked His Majesty to go quickly!"

A brocade guard in a dark black tight-fitting flying fish suit passed over the guard and entered the room directly.

The privilege of Jin Yiwei in the past dynasties is to hold important matters, and the notification can be exempted, so you can see yourself.

Qiu Sheng raised his hands and stood up, bowing slightly in Chu Yu's direction: "Please trouble me that the peace talks are over, Master will still have the face to have such a heart-to-heart talk with me. I wonder if Master is interested in going to see it together?"

If it was before, Chu Yu would naturally not be bothered to swim in the muddy water full of reefs and storms, but since he knew that half of his life was involved in the survival of Dayue in an indirect way, his mentality changed drastically. Anyway, being idle is idle, Chu He bowed his head to return the salute, and took the opportunity to help his mask: "The kindness is hard to turn down, please, Your Majesty."

I thought that the crisis in Da Viet was caused by the strong pressure from the outside world. Since entering Beijing, Chu Yu has focused on how to fight against foreign thieves, and has no intention of involving the royal power, wealth, and those pediatric intrigues.But flies do not bite seamless eggs. If Dai Viet has been strong and peaceful for hundreds of years, with a stable frontier that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has long eyes, who would dare to come to the door to provoke and declare war?

Dayue, which looks bright and beautiful, has already been gnawed into a hole from the inside out by a wolf in sheep's clothing. Now, Qiu Sheng is relying on a flashy shell to piece together a hole full of moths.

The incense of plum blossoms to soothe the spirit is burning in the Palace of Political Affairs, and a wisp of smoke is lit in the furnace, which is originally for the effect of quiet contemplation and concentration.It's a pity that no one is willing to appreciate this good incense at this time, the Brahma smoke is misty, and the nose absorbs the elegant and mellow aroma, but everyone discusses it around a tragic dead body, as if the strange thing that costs 100 taels of silver Xiang is just a stupid thing to remove the smell of corpses.

The man on the ground died in a miserable state, his seven orifices were bruised and turned black, his mouth, nose and eyes were left with several dry bloodstains, and his face and body were covered with scratches that shocked the beholder. Flesh, a long tongue, full of black blood spots protruding from the mouth.

Jiang Chen has been in the palace for a long time, and he has never intervened in the cases of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple. He has lived for five or sixty years and has never seen such a terrifying dead body. When Qiu Sheng arrived with Chu Yu, he was still holding his hands. Stomach resting on the table.

Liancheng: "Your Majesty, under the order of Lord Jiang, I have been tracking down twelve lords in the court for nearly a month. During the routine inspection this morning, I found this person in a very secret place. I have done an autopsy. It should be He died suddenly from poison. Wu Zuo couldn't figure out what kind of poison it was. According to the investigation, this person was a young eunuch in the empress's outer palace. His name was Fulin. He was different from other eunuchs. People are very good at kung fu, if they are healthy and healthy people, it is not impossible to use their fists and feet to join His Majesty's close guard team."

Qiu Sheng frowned: "Queen?"

Liancheng waved his hand to call someone, Qiu Sheng raised his eyelids, but it turned out to be Huali, one of the queen's personal maids.

The little girl is not very old, so she has never seen such a posture before. When she saw the emperor who had not been seen for ten and a half months, she even forgot the words she had planned before, and just kowtowed while trembling: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty hasn't been there for quite a while...to see your majesty...my majesty misses your majesty..."

"Let's get down to business." Earlier, the empress was arranged by the late emperor. Qiu Sheng didn't have much affection for this person. Now that such a moth has happened, the few patience has long since run out, "Zhen I don't have time to listen to your wheels squealing."

Huali shivered and stood up straight, holding her two trembling little legs and humming: "Your Majesty, this person is the little eunuch who waters the flowers with a lantern in the empress's outer palace. He will be beaten when he enters the empress's pavilion." , if he did something wrong and was rewarded in this world, it really has nothing to do with our mother! Please look into it clearly, Your Majesty!"

Chu Yu looked at her with pity, and silently lit some wax for the queen who was kept in the dark.

Perhaps it was really a misunderstanding, and it would be fine if it was opened, but once this little girl disturbed her, she would inevitably become more suspected of doing something wrong and eager to excuse her master, not to mention a proud young man like Qiu Sheng, Most of them hate women and other people's meddling in political affairs.Those who don't speak clearly are self-clearing, but the sharp teeth have worn away Qiu Sheng's last trace of sympathy and care for the green girl. He no longer went to see her: "Pull it out, don't come in to be an eyesore .”

Turning around to look at Liancheng: "Aiqing continue, how did this person die?"

Liancheng: "It was not yet light at Maoshi today, and my subordinates led a few people to patrol. I saw this kid sneaking along a gravel path in the imperial garden. He was acting strangely. I felt hesitant, so I stepped forward to inquire. As a result, As soon as the boy saw his subordinates running away, he fell down by himself within a few steps. He roared like crazy, as if he was being entangled by some demon or something evil. He spurted blood and pinched himself with dead hands The flesh. The madman calmed down after a long while, leaning against the stone, his body was already cold."

"What did you find out?"

"The incident happened suddenly, and it was very strange. I thought I would send it to His Majesty for further investigation. I didn't have time to check anything other than the identity. It was just that when I was doing the autopsy, I found an envelope from my clothes. The subordinates dare not act rashly."

Liancheng presented an envelope full of dirt and gravel with both hands, Jiang Chen didn't want to get Qiu Sheng's hands dirty, and wanted to go forward to take it, but was stopped by that little bastard who didn't know what to do.

"Master Jiang has a bad face, Li Ci!"

Li Ciben was waiting outside the hall, and when he heard it, he rolled in a group and knelt down: "What is your majesty's order?"

Qiu Sheng supported the pale-faced Jiang Chen, and handed him over to Li Ci: "Take my lord to the imperial hospital to recuperate, and you will take good care of me, without my order, you will always take care of my lord. "

"According to the order."

Jiang Chen's face became even paler.

He and Qiu Sheng had no friendship at all. When the plague was coming, the late emperor taught Nan Xiao Wang, who was still a child, and he seemed to have helped the late emperor, causing this thin-skinned young man to suffer a lot of exaggerated headaches in public. Scolding, holding two buckets of water and standing in front of the Yizheng Hall, often getting wet legs and hands, all the palace ladies and eunuchs passing by are not laughing.

The boy was so ashamed to cry at the beginning, but then he stopped. In the winter, he would rather admit the punishment and go back to heal his frostbite than bow his head and give in. Later, he became more promising, and dared to be beaten and molested in front of the old emperor. , full of crazy words of "don't beat me to death, lest you be charged with inhumanity".In forging Qiu Sheng's unparalleled thick-skinned matter, the first emperor and Jiang Chen can be said to have made great contributions.

The elders of the older generation always think that children are bad and disobedient, and stick education is the core of all solutions. Nonsense such as "If you don't beat yourself up, you will not be successful" and "a filial son is born under the stick", the old things have been chanting half their lives in front of the imperial decree. Even if he had already come to the conclusion that "a brazen demon king emerges from violent beatings", he still did not repent.

Now that the demon king of the world is suspicious of him, he naturally feels humiliated, but there is nothing he can do. When he turned to leave, he heard Qiu Sheng say in a neutral voice: "My lord, from now on, Jinyiwei is directly under my control. If there is no imperial edict, the information can only be passed on to me."

He looked at the vast expanse of whiteness outside the door, and his heart was so loyal that it froze all of a sudden, and there was no warmth left.

I have spent my whole life on the saddle, devoting myself to everything, who appreciates it?Who knows?

But each discussed their own boredom, and they broke up as soon as they hit each other.

Qiu Sheng roughly scanned the letter, and the more she read it, the more shocking she became, and a gust of cool wind blew up from her back.

The letter wrote in detail the current situation of Dai Viet, including finances, military strength, courtiers, and popular sentiments, all of which were listed clearly and clearly.What's more, Qiu Sheng's many plans and plans for this peace talk were all on paper, and he even knew more about the situation of the Dai Viet court than the emperor himself.

The words "200 million, don't be greedy, don't be greedy" almost blinded his eyes, and he was completely understood, so what's the point?Negotiate what?

Liancheng seemed to have noticed Qiu Sheng's ups and downs, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, no matter what, this secret report was stopped by your subordinates, and there will be no difference."

Chu Yu looked at Qiu Sheng, the man frowned, and uttered a few words from his throat: "This is not a secret report."

"It's a great gift."