RPAGF Chapter 791 8 steps
Chapter 791 8 steps
"Leave." Xuan Ling suppressed his anger and spoke in a low voice. Nalanbo raised a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, bowed his head and slowly left the Qianqing Palace. The cold wind blew snow into the palace. Xuan Ling looked at his receding back and dug his nails deep into his palm. Late at night, Xuan Ling summoned the personal guard leader Shen Yi. Shen Yi was dressed in a dark suit, with a sword on his waist shining coldly. He was Xuan Ling's confidant when he was in the residence, and one of the few people he could trust. "Nalanbo controls the Ministry of Revenue and withholds relief money. I want you to investigate secretly and make sure to get solid evidence." Xuan Ling stuffed a secret letter into Shen Yi's hand. "This is a memorial secretly sent by the governor of Jiangnan. It lists the details of Nalanbo's cronies embezzling money and grain." Shen Yi knelt on one knee and took the secret letter: "I will live up to the emperor's trust. But Nalanbo is shrewd and has spies all over the court. I hope the emperor will be careful." However, Xuan Ling's action was still a step too late. Three days later, in the morning court, Nalanbo held a stack of memorials with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, I have found out that the governor of Jiangnan colluded with the rebels and intended to rebel! This is the secret letter they exchanged. Please investigate!" Xuan Ling took the memorial and his hands trembled. On the so-called "secret letter", there were words about the governor of Jiangnan and the "rebels" discussing rebellion, and the handwriting was exactly the same as the memorial he received the day before. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the ministers behind Nalanbo who usually opposed him. At this moment, they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look him in the eye. "Come here! Arrest the governor of Jiangnan and his cronies immediately!" Nalanbo ordered loudly. Xuan Ling gripped the armrests of the dragon chair tightly, his nails almost digging into the carvings. He knew that this was Nalanbo's countermeasure, not only to eliminate dissidents, but also to stop his idea of disaster relief. After the court meeting, Xuan Ling sat alone in the Qianqing Palace, looking at the heavy snow outside the window. Suddenly, he remembered that when he was a child, the late emperor once held his hand and said: "The most important thing for an emperor is to keep the people's hearts." Now, he can't even keep the people's life-saving food, how can he keep the people's hearts? "Your Majesty, Commander Shen requests to see you." The little eunuch's announcement interrupted his thoughts. Shen Yi came hurriedly, still with a chill on his body: "Your Majesty, Nalanbo has been prepared for a long time. Our people were discovered by his spies as soon as they arrived in Jiangnan, and all the clues were cut off. However, I found out in secret that Nalanbo has a private warehouse in the suburbs of Beijing, which contains a large amount of gold and silver treasures, which is very likely to be the withheld disaster relief silver." A gleam of light flashed in Xuan Ling's eyes: "Okay! You take people to check tonight, and you must catch the people red-handed!" That night, Shen Yi took a team of elite soldiers and sneaked into the suburbs of Beijing under the cover of night. However, when they arrived at the private warehouse, they found that the door of the warehouse was wide open and it was already empty. Shen Yi felt something was wrong and was about to order a retreat. Suddenly, countless torches lit up around them, and Nalanbo's confidants led a large group of people to surround them. "Commander Shen, what is the meaning of breaking into a private house at night?" Nalanbo's sinister voice came from the darkness. Shen Yi clenched his sword, knowing that he was ambushed. A fierce battle was inevitable. Although Shen Yi was a martial arts expert, he was outnumbered and was eventually seriously injured and captured. When the news reached the palace, Xuan Ling was extremely anxious. He wanted to punish Nalanbo for the crime of privately storing military weapons, but he was unexpectedly tricked by the other party. What's worse, Nalanbo used this as an excuse to impeach Xuan Ling in the court for abusing private punishment and intending to murder ministers. For a time, all the civil and military officials in the court submitted petitions, asking Xuan Ling to give an explanation. Xuan Ling sat on the dragon chair, looking at the impeachment memorials from the ministers of His Highness, and his heart was full of despair. Is he really going to let Nalanbo manipulate him?
If something went against his will, there would be a wave of impeachment in the court. The day before yesterday, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who he promoted, had just submitted a letter to impeach Nalanbo's followers for corruption, but the next day he was found to have colluded with the enemy and died suddenly in prison.
Qionghua Fairy Fate
On the cloud steps of the Ninth Heaven, Fairy Qionghua was dressing up the Queen Mother of the West with a jade hairpin in hand. Outside the palace, fairy music was playing, magnolia flowers were falling in the wind, and the pink and white petals were stuck on her wide sleeves. Suddenly, a hurried sound of footsteps came, and the little fairy ran in stumblingly: "Fairy! It's bad, three of the seven-colored lotus lanterns in Yaochi have gone out!" The jade hairpin in Qionghua's hand trembled violently, drawing a light red line on the Queen Mother of the West's temples. The Yaochi lotus lanterns symbolize the lifeblood of the human world. If all seven are extinguished, disasters will be rampant. She hurriedly pleaded guilty, and the Queen Mother of the West stroked her silver hair and said faintly: "This is the will of heaven. You should go to the human world to find out the reason quickly. If you can protect the lotus lanterns from burning again, it will be considered a merit for you." In the blink of an eye, Qionghua had turned into a stream of light and fell into the mortal world. When she landed, it was just the beginning of the drizzle. She looked at the muddy path and the dilapidated village in front of her, and the cloud brocade on her skirt was stained with mud. There was a crying child in the distance, so she went to find the sound and saw a young man carrying a bamboo basket, carefully protecting the baby in his arms. "Little sir, what happened?" Qionghua asked softly. The young man raised his head, his eyebrows and eyes were delicate but full of fatigue: "Fairy, you don't know, half a month ago, the demon appeared in the world and sucked up the well water in the village. Now everyone has no water to drink, and my sister..." Before she finished speaking, the baby in her arms suddenly coughed violently, and the little face turned purple. Qionghua's heart tightened, raised her hand and waved it lightly, and a spiritual light flew out of her fingertips and sank into the baby's body. The baby's breathing gradually stabilized. The boy widened his eyes in surprise and knelt down: "Thank you for saving my life, fairy! My name is Yunzhou, I don't know if you are a fairy..." "I am a passing fairy. Since I know that the demon is causing trouble, I will help you." Qionghua helped Yunzhou up and looked at the gloomy forest outside the village, "Where is the demon?" Yunzhou hesitated: "There is a black wind cave deep in the forest. The villagers tried to drive it away, but they never came back. If you want to go there, fairy, be careful." He took out a piece of dry food from the bamboo basket, "This is the only food left in the house, please accept it, fairy." Qionghua looked at the rough dry food in her hand, thinking of the exquisite fairy food in the heavenly palace, and suddenly felt her throat tighten. After thanking her, she flew towards the black wind cave. There were gusts of cold wind in the cave, and countless wronged souls were wailing and circling. Deep in the cave, a huge black python was coiled on a stone platform, and seven beads emitting faint light were suspended above its head - it was the wick of the Yaochi Lotus Lantern. "How dare you, you daring monster, steal the lotus lantern!" Qionghua offered the jade hairpin, and the fairy light shone brightly. The black python spit out its tongue, and disdain flashed in its eyes: "Little fairy, dare you go against me?" A fierce battle began. Although Qionghua had great magic power, she could not resist the black python's magic and gradually fell behind.
At the critical moment, Yun Zhou broke into the cave and threw a torch at the black python. The black python felt pain and was distracted. Qiong Hua seized the opportunity and stabbed its vital point with the jade hairpin.
They were elusive and finally found the letters of Narambo's collusion with foreign enemies and the account books of corruption and bribery in his study.