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Chapter 644 Rumors

Amid the clanging sound of gongs and drums, there was a recitation of the story, and under the lights, some paper-cut characters made various actions behind the white cloth under the guidance of ropes, and then "passing the door" and singing together, the shadow puppet officially began.

The hundreds of people here listened with relish. Even if the children didn't understand it, it was very satisfying and joyful to see the paper-cut characters shaking behind the white cloth. For a moment, in addition to the sound of gongs and singing, the huge threshing ground was quiet.

"It was said that." Huang Yucheng laughed silently after hearing this for a while.

Looking at the people around him who were drunk and obsessed with hearing, Huang Yucheng also felt a little speechless.

The script seems to be written by the military department, but I don’t know which department it is, not like the original propaganda department of the attendant department. In this shadow play, there are dozens of shadow puppets with the appearance of generals, with passionate drum beats and very excited. Then it is displayed on the battlefield, but it is the scene where Zhang Han leads his troops to fight with Bu Shitu Khan. Then Zhang Han sends the powerful general Zhou Yao to fight and shoots Bu Shitu Khan with an arrow in the battlefield.

"Not that is the case." Huang Yucheng complained: "Fortunately, it's not like that the adults shot Bu Shitu to death with one arrow."

He did not speak out. Since it was such a propaganda, it must have made some sense, which was quite effective in elevating and Yusheng's image. When he saw this story, there were many marvels in the courtyard.

After all, it is a well-known fact that He Yusheng defeated the Beilu and the Great Tartar Khan died on the battlefield. It is estimated that even the court knew that Bu Shitu Khan died, but Zhang Han did not report it. Of course, the Beilu would not report it officially. The court could only regard it as rumors. Now the official exchange between the imperial court and the Beilu was almost stopped. The news was probably reported by the Kalaqin tribe through Xuanda. The court could receive official news and interrogate it. He Yusheng did not need to explain this. Bu Shitu Khan died in internal struggle, and He Yusheng did not need to be responsible for it.

Next was Omubuhong, but Yang Qiu was swept in. The military intelligence supervisor did not know the identity of this little Taiji, and used this great knight's Taiji to herd sheep. Then Zhang Han accidentally appeared, poor that this little Taiji boy lost his father and adopted him.

After a set of plays, the life experience of Omubuhong is very pitiful and miserable, which fades the identity of the son of the Northern Khan, but instead gives a faint feeling of his own. After all, in the plays, Omubujiang recognized Zhang Han as his uncle, which is also a fact that many people know. Although he and Yusheng have never admitted it, they even deny that Omubuhong is in Lizhuang, Zhang Han has an extra teenage Tartar around him, and he is always with him, which is also a fact that many people have seen with their own eyes.

"Ha, it's true and false, it's confusing." Huang Yucheng secretly sighed in his heart. This shadow play must have been the work of the military propaganda. With Yusheng's internal operation, Huang Yucheng has been in it for several months. He knows it clearly and is also sighing in his heart about the efficiency of military personnel in his work. However, he thought about himself, following Kong Minxing's learning, there was absolutely no delay, and official duties first, and there is such an atmosphere in the upper and lower levels. Not only does there have a strict reward and punishment system, those who do more will be rewarded, those who do wrong things or are lazy in official duties will be punished, but the upper and lower levels have the spirit of consciously and voluntarily doing more things. This is valuable.

After watching a scene, Yang Qiu, the military intelligence supervisor, was a bit like a clown, which just diluted the horror of the Military Intelligence Department in people's hearts, and then pushed out Zhang Han's Rende and Omubujiang's experiences. In the future, he made this son a khan and did not kill Tumote, but focused on differentiation and control. This major policy will be easily accepted by people. This is a subtle merit.

"The so-called propaganda is nothing more than this!" Huang Yucheng sighed in his heart, and he was pleased and surrendered to such means. In comparison, the efforts made by the court in this kind of thing were thousands of miles apart.

"Oh, why is my descendants so difficult?"

In the inner world, Emperor Tianqi was frowning and his face was full of unhappiness.

He may have cried last night, his eyes were slightly red and swollen. Most eunuchs dared not look at the emperor's face carefully. After a little swipe, they quickly lowered their heads. Wei Zhongxian, Keshi and others looked very sincerely. Their faces were full of sadness, and they were even saying words to comfort the emperor.

In July last year, the eldest son of the emperor who was more than 20 days old passed away, and the emperor was very sad. As a result, in March of the third year of the Tianqi period, another bad news came. He was five months old. The emperor usually loved treasures and often held the second son of the emperor and played with him died young. The evil disease came. The Imperial Hospital was useless. It was the prince and the emperor's favorite offspring. He died soon after he was treated by the incompetent imperial physician. Because he was six months old, everyone in the palace thought that the prince could grow up, but he died suddenly. He felt surprised in the palace and outside, and there were also many absurd rumors.

"Your Majesty, please mourn." Wei Zhongxian accompanied Tianqi and his eyes were swollen. Keshi calmly and persuaded: "The emperor is less than twenty years old and has given birth to a prince. He will definitely give birth to more princes in the future."

Although Keshi's words were ruthless, they really touched Tianqi. What the emperor was most worried about was that he had broken off his offspring like the father and son of Xiaozong or Wuzong.

"I hope it's as my mother said." Tianqi's eyebrows slightly shook.

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said, "I heard that the Empress was also very sad. The commander over there came to ask the queen to come to Qianqing Palace."

Tianqi said: "Don't work the queen anymore, she is very sad, wait until I go to Kunning Palace."

The Qianqing Palace was the main hall of the emperor, and the Kunning Palace was the queen's hall. However, from the Qing Dynasty, it was officially opened in the Palace of Harmony since Yongzheng, and Kunning Palace was changed to the place where pigs were killed and shamans danced.

Tianqi was about to leave when a eunuch in charge of the Qianqing Palace came in and bowed and said, "His Royal Highness Xin has entered the palace and is waiting to see him outside the Qianqing Gate."

"Oh," Tianqi was in a bad mood and knew the purpose of King Xin, so he said, "Tell me about it and I said that I was already in Kunning Palace and I will disappear today. I will be sent to him in a few days to speak."

"Yes, the emperor."

After Tianqi left, Wei Zhongxian personally went outside the Qianqing Gate to meet King Xin.

For Wei Zhongxian, this was particularly attentive. Unexpectedly, when King Xin saw Wei Zhongxian, his face suddenly changed. Although he replied as usual and concealed it well, the emotional fluctuations at that moment, the tension and fear were very obvious. How could Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch who fought at the bottom of the palace, not be able to tell the difference?

If Wei Zhongxian had not seen him, he would come forward and kneel down to greet him. King Xin hurriedly reached out to support him with his hands, and said in a hurry: "How can you be a high-ranking official like this?"

Wei Zhongxian pursed his lips and said, "Your Highness is the prince, and I am just the emperor's servant. Why can't you afford to be a servant to worship me?"

Wei Zhongxian continued, "I don't know what happened to Your Highness?"

King Xin forced himself to say, "The high-ranking officials worked day and night, and the palace and the palace were all busy. I didn't have any important matters, I just came to see the emperor's brother and talk."

Wei Zhongxian said: "Unfortunately, the emperor has already gone to Kunning Palace today and reported it to him. The emperor said that it is inconvenient to meet today. He would wait a few days before summoning His Highness to come in to speak."

"Oh," King Xin couldn't hide his disappointment, and at the same time he said with some shame: "So that's it, I'm sorry to be the official."

Wei Zhongxian said, "I dare not, I just told Your Highness to have a trip in vain."

King Xin pretended to be hearty and smiled: "I am idle, and it doesn't matter if I run ten times."

The two of them had nothing to say at this point. The people from the Xinwang Mansion quickly carried the sedan chair over. With his identity as Xinwang, he could keep carrying the sedan chair into the Ganqing Gate and then he needed to get out of the sedan chair and walk. Wei Zhongxian bent and stood there, at least without any disrespect in the superficial etiquette. After Xinwang got on the sedan chair, he smiled and nodded to Wei Zhongxian, and then stomped his feet gently. After the sedan chair turned, he headed towards Xihua Gate.

In the evening, Wei Zhongxian asked someone to invite Ke Shi in and talked about the meeting with King Xin today.

"I told you why this little prince looked trembling when he saw our family." Wei Zhongxian said angrily and amusedly: "He thought he had concealed it well. In fact, no one in our family had seen it and had never seen any ghost tricks. How could he ask this child to deceive him?"

Keshi frowned and said, "Who dares to make such rumors? It's really a naughty seed."

Wei Zhongxian sneered: "We will go to see the emperor later, but we want you to go and call the front station first. This rumor is either for others or for us."

Keshi patted her legs and said, "I see this too. What does that person say? This is definitely not groundless!"

Wei Zhongxian said with a depressed look on his face: "This kind of rumor can be made by the pigs of the Donglin Party, and only if the mind of the King of Trustees will believe it!"

After King Xin left today, Wei Zhongxian asked someone about the reason why King Xin was strange today. Of course, he had a hand in the Xinwang Mansion. In less than an hour, he replied because King Xin heard that the death of the two princes was related to Wei Zhongxian. It was Keshi and Wei Zhongxian who joined forces to kill the poison. After hearing this, King Xin was frightened first, but later felt that he could not delay and hurriedly entered the palace. Then it happened that Tianqi did not want to meet people. This was also a rare thing for King Xin. Generally speaking, as long as King Xin entered the palace, Tianqi would definitely meet. The two brothers had a good relationship. At least in Tianqi's heart, King Xin was his only blood relative in the world and a good brother who could rely on. Therefore, the practice of not wanting to meet today is also very rare.

However, King Xin thought it was Wei Zhongxian who was isolated from China and abroad, so he deliberately blocked him and refused to ask the emperor's brother to meet him. As a result, after he returned, his panic and fear became more obvious.

"Oh," Wei Zhongxian thought of this and said unconsciously: "We little prince really don't know what we think. Why do we have the ability to go to the inner palace to poison the prince? Even if our family has this ability, the emperor treats our family as much as a mountain. Why do we do such a thing? The emperor has no heirs, and the cheaper one is not the king of Xin. Our family is not good at being with Xin Wang, so our family is so stupid? Kill the emperor's descendants. What is our family's goal? Don't say that the prince is young and cannot affect our family. Even if the emperor is a minister, the emperor is only less than twenty years old. Do the people who make these rumors have the brain?"

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