Deep ice

third watch,

An oil lamp was lit in the lobby, flickering on and off, as if it was about to go out at any moment.

The tea in hand was already cold, Tian Chongguang sat in the wide pear wood chair, a little sleepy.

The footsteps in the dark were light and quick, and with the creak of the door, the young servant who stepped into the threshold closed the door behind his back and came up, "My lord, you can go over."

Tian Chongguang raised his eyes slightly, his face was reflected by the candlelight, and his face was a little more gloomy, "Can you see clearly? The person guarding outside is Wang Tongbing?"

The little servant nodded upon hearing this, "don't worry, my lord, the little one saw it very clearly, and even went up to say hello to Wang Tongbing, I can't be wrong."

Hearing this, Tian Chongguang stood up, flicked the folds of his robe with his fingers, "Go."

The servant followed Tian Chongguang with a flattering expression, "My lord, the smaller sedan chair has already been prepared for you."

Tian Chongguang walked out of the house slowly, "But the big sedan chair on weekdays?"

How clever the servant is, "My lord, I have prepared a green sedan chair for you, no one will pay more attention to it..."

The corners of Tian Chongguang's eyes creased slightly, "Not bad."

The smile on the servant's face widened, and he hurriedly waited for Tian Chongguang to go out and get on the sedan chair, and then put his hands in his sleeves, and followed them towards the back gate of the palace.

Let's say that there were four people traveling this trip, including the bearers, and they didn't even mention the lanterns. They staggered around to the back door of the palace in the dark.

Walking along the path, it didn't take long before the mansion with the tall eaves was in front of us.

The place where the sedan chair landed was still some distance away from the mansion, the servant lifted the cotton curtain, Tian Chongguang leaned out, looking at the four corners of the lanterns hanging high, his scalp felt inexplicably numb.

Seeing this, the little servant stepped forward knowingly and called the commander Wang over.

The little officer who commanded the army was ordered by his superiors to be just an errand, so he didn't know Tian Chongguang's identity, he only knew that he was a high-ranking official, and when he came up, he knelt down on one knee, "Kowtow to Your Excellency."

Tian Chongguang retreated to the dark place, looked around for a while, "Are you Wang Tian?"

Wang Tongbing clasped his fists and raised his head, "Exactly."

"All the previous people have changed? Is there not one left?"

"Not one left."

"Where did you go?"

"The boss said that there are not many people, and they are afraid of accidents, so they will be put in prison first, waiting for the adults to deal with them."

Tian Chongguang still couldn't rest assured, "Is there any eyeliner installed by the emperor?"

Wang Tian paused, "I went through all the interrogations, and only said that a eunuch followed from the palace, and the humble official is preparing to attack these few days."

"What's the eunuch's name?"

"Shun Shun."

Tian Chongguang took a long breath, "No need, it's my own."

After finishing speaking, he was led by the boy into the secret door next to him.

The courtyard was pitch-black, with occasional birds passing by, making it even more eerie. The servants had already fallen asleep, Tian Chongguang followed the faint light in the dark night, went to the side hall alone, and tapped on the door panel with his breath held.

The eunuch who opened the door was Shun Shun, who had already greeted him earlier, so he was not surprised to see Tian Chongguang, so he hurriedly welcomed him in, "My lord, please hurry up."

Tian Chongguang felt a little depressed, straightened his clothes, and walked two steps, his legs and feet trembled.

Although he and He Yan had exchanged secret letters for many days, it was the first time that they sat and talked face to face.

I thought that when I was still a copyist in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, this man had already dominated the court, but he had never looked at me in the face.

Tian Chongguang clenched his hands, bowed his head forward, and only raised his head when he got to the bright place. The person sitting in front of the bean-sized oil lamp was He Yan, with a sharp and handsome face and piercing brows.

Tian Chongguang bent down unconsciously, "My lord..."

Seeing Tian Chongguang like this, He Yan suddenly got up and stepped forward to help him, "Lord Tian is really polite..."

Tian Chongguang had mixed feelings for a moment, his voice was a little choked up,

"Chongguang didn't want to be able to discuss matters with adults in his lifetime..."

He Yan laughed and said, "I'm still some kind of adult, but Mr. Tian is too arrogant."

Tian Chongguang consciously lost his composure, stayed silent for a moment, and then said meaningfully,

"Master Fei Qingfei, now he is the head of the official military department, and his future is immeasurable..."

Looking at each other and smiling, He Yan slightly raised his eyebrows, "Although I really want to meet this person, but right now, it's not the time."

Tian Chongguang said: "I have been with this man for a few days, and I am transferred to the Ministry of War. It is indeed a pity for his good articles."

He Yan said: "I think you must have spent some trouble."

Tian Chongguang said: "Right now, the Ministry of War is basically under my single-handed control. It is not too troublesome to install this person. When Your Excellency replaces Fei Qing and returns to the court, the Emperor will not be too difficult to do."

After a pause, he said again: "Right now, I can only hide my strength and bide my time, and just wait for that...the soldiers will not kill blood."

By the way, I brought a pot of hot tea, and the sound of water pouring into the teacup was especially clear in the silent night.

Tian Chongguang stared at the celadon cup and sighed softly, "Fortunately, Governor Lin, who fought with you before, is still there. If not, there is really no one available."

He Yan raised his head, his face was gilded by the candlelight,

"Fu Xuechuan should still be there."

Tian Chonggao was a little dumbfounded, "...he is still there, and now he is an official cabinet scholar."

He Yan said lightly, "Just call him over another day."

Tian Chongguang opened his mouth and closed it again.

The fear that cannot be concealed on the face.

This Fu Xuechuan was originally one of the few people who dared to challenge He Yan back then. Since He Yan fell from power, this person has had a long career in office, and within a year he even entered the cabinet.

Even if he wanted to break his head, this person shouldn't have anything to do with He Yan.

Seeing Tian Chongguang's froze face, He Yan naturally knew what he was worried about, so he smiled and said, "I don't need to hide it from you, this Fu Xuechuan has been controlled by me since the beginning, and I always have to think about it for myself." Leaving a way out is not."

"It's just a deception to make that appearance."

Tian Chongguang lowered his eyes, his palms were cold and wet.

He Yan continued: "Zhao Yike is still in the Ministry of Officials?"

Tian Chonggao wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, "Now he is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."

He Yan smiled and said, "These people are still useful."

Tian Chongguang was silent for a moment, and then couldn't help asking: "These people are actually what party... I really didn't see it before..."

He Yan said: "Is there any official in this court who can be clean, once he has tasted the sweetness, no one will be clean."

There was a strong wind outside the house, and the door panels rattled.

The ice that had accumulated on the eaves for a whole winter was finally crumbling, falling from a height, and densely packed with broken ice on the ground.

The two of them kept silent, and followed the sound away, Shun Shun hurriedly opened the door and went out to observe, stayed outside to ask clearly, then turned back, "It's just a piece of ice from a high place that was blown down by the wind."

Tian Chongguang's heart sank slightly, and he continued: "At first, I thought about embezzling the capital by taking advantage of Lin Chang's payment, but the emperor is very careful, and I'm afraid this matter needs to be discussed in the long run."

Listening to the sound of falling ice outside, He Yan was silent for a long time.

The eyes are dark, hiding an unfathomable light,

"What's so difficult about this? Yunyin uses 5000 capitals each time, and when the 5000 people have arrived in northern Xinjiang, he then asks Lin Chang to replace the [-] people with his own people. Repeat this several times until half of the garrison in the capital is emptied. Changing the command of the army, so that the capital will become its own soldiers, so as to avoid having to transfer people from border towns all the way in the future."

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Deep spring mist, dew wet flowers.

There was a sound of urgent footsteps outside the imperial study room, upon hearing the sound, Xi Lian poked her head and followed the sound.

The one who turned out from the end of the gray stone road was just an eunuch, holding a thick stack of memorials and heading towards the main hall.

The sun is shining outside, reflecting the heavy palace, shining with light and full of vitality.

I don't know which palace man sewed a bright red kite, which floated into the clouds, crossed the deep palace and marquis, and was free.

An inaudible sigh sounded from beside her ears, Xi Lian shrank her neck in a numb manner, and turned her head to look at the person behind her.

In the lifeless inner hall, the emperor's face was sickly white, and he was just raising his pen, his eyes fell on the door, watching the eunuch bring in a new memorial, before dropping his eyes and writing again.

Xi Lian hurried up to help make room for it, but she was thinking about other things.

Ever since Huaihuai left the palace that day, counting to today, there has been no one in half a month.

Not to mention the emperor, even Xilian was looking forward to his return when he was fine.

Just as he was thinking about it, the stack of memorials held by the little eunuch next to him accidentally fell to the ground and fell into a mess.

The little eunuch hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed in panic,

"The slave deserves to die, the slave deserves to die, the emperor calms down..."

Putting down the pen with her slender fingers, Yuan Jing lowered her eyes slightly, unable to conceal her tiredness and weakness.

Xi Lian stepped forward and kicked the eunuch, "Stupid thing, get out of here..."

The little eunuch was grateful and crawled out of the hall.

The memorials on the ground were blown over by the wind, rattling,

The densely packed small characters on it, like a life-threatening hand, are pulling the young emperor into the abyss.

Xi and the palace servants in the inner hall knelt on the ground to clean up the memorials, and from time to time they raised their heads and peeked at the person who was sitting in a daze.

"Xilian--"

Hearing this movement, Xi Lian's voice trembled with excitement, "Your Majesty..."

"Have you ever gone out to see it?"

Xi Lian said: "I have been there twice, it seems that I have suffered from the wind and cold again, every time the slaves go, people are asleep."

Yuan Jing's voice was indifferent, "Did you lose your waist card?"

Xi Lian was suffocated, he hesitated to speak, but he didn't dare to deceive the king, so he only said in a low voice,

"No."

The new green is getting thicker, and the warbler is tireless.

The verdant pines and cypresses soared into the sky, and He Yan's surroundings were not the claustrophobic world at the back corner of the palace.

Fu Xuechuan uncovered the black brocade on the table, his smile fading.

He Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Staring at the black iron armor and holding the red-tasseled helmet, he is calm and sharp, all the things he used back then.

It's just that, right now, it's the dirt of the ransacked house.

He Yan didn't care, and reached out to touch the dusty scabbard.

After observing for a long time, he unexpectedly smiled and drew his sword,

The momentum is like a river, and the excitement is like yesterday, making the light willows and soft flowers in April suddenly far away.