The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 172 The storm is coming
"Your servant Longkodo wishes the Fourth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth Masters the best of health."

After Longkodo came in, he took the initiative to pay his respects in a servile manner.

The fourth brother had been exerting all his strength on Longkodo, so he naturally couldn't let him feel embarrassed, so he pushed the prostitute in his arms away and said with a smile: "Uncle, get up quickly. It's better to get up early than to get up early, so we can have fun together!"

"Come on, go call mom and ask her to bring over a few prostitutes that she likes." When the fourth brother wants to drug someone, it's hard not to fall for it.

Longkodo was not stupid either. He knew in his heart that as long as the fourth prince was present, Yinyou would not say much and everything would be decided by the fourth prince.

"Fourth Master, I smelled the scent of joy from ten blocks away. So I rushed over immediately, just wanting to join in the fun."

Longkodo came to treat us, so naturally he had to stay and accompany the guests. We had a great time.

Ever since Yinyou took charge of the Infantry Yamen, Longkodo has been thinking about how to please him.

Nowadays, it is really hard to find an official wife who meets Yinyu's special taste.

However, as long as Longkodo gave the order, which mother in the capital would dare not bring her beautiful prostitute who had never been groomed to serve her obediently?

To put it bluntly, in the capital, all the mothers doing the sex trade, no matter how high-ranking they are, are afraid that they will not be able to find a way to curry favor with Longkodo.

When she heard that Longkodo had arrived, Mother Zhang from Yuechunlou almost went crazy with joy!
Before tonight, Zhang Mama tried to get money and a girl for Longkodo. However, Longkodo was arrogant and never looked at Zhang Mama.

Soon, Mother Zhang brought in a hidden prostitute, who was her most popular girl, with a flattering smile on her face.

"Oh, Marshal Long, you are a distinguished guest that I cannot even invite..." Mother Zhang flattered him without asking for any money.

As soon as Longkodo heard it, he knew that the fourth brother and his companions had not revealed their identities, but were out playing in disguise.

"Today, I have an honorable guest to entertain. Hurry up and call all the top prostitutes here."

Longkodo glanced at the girl behind Zhang's mother and thought, how ignorant she is that she only brought a good girl here.

With so many heavyweights present, no matter who the good girl serves, she will offend that person!

Mother Zhang quickly said with a smile, "Long Shuai, don't worry, I still have many good girls here, but they just need some time to put on makeup and dress up."

The fourth brother and Yinyou were both outsiders, but the thirteenth brother, an expert, knew it all clearly.

What Mrs. Zhang meant by having a lot of good girls was actually her intention to spend a lot of money to find some good girls from other places to help serve them.

In the brothel industry these days, there is a need for temporary help from each other.

For example, there were only one hundred girls in Yuechun Tower, and suddenly two hundred guests came, so it was necessary to find other gardens to borrow girls temporarily.

In addition, if a big shot who you cannot afford to offend really comes, at best you will close your business and lose your money, at worst you may lose your head.

Therefore, within the entire industry, there is a basic need to make money through harmony and to help each other.

When people heard that Longkodo was sitting in the Yuechun Tower, the whole capital was alarmed.

Therefore, several of the most famous courtesans in the capital were quickly sent here.

The fourth brother took a closer look and was very angry. Compared with these beautiful courtesans, the one in his arms was simply an ugly duckling.

In fact, there are many mature and beautiful women in this industry.

However, in this special industry, women who have been in it for a long time cannot hide their worldly air no matter what.

Therefore, Longkodo had no courage at all and used the famous prostitute who had taken over the patronage, lying that she was the wife of an official.

If Yinyou knew that he had been deceived, Longkodo asked himself, he would not be able to withstand the wrath of thunder!
The fourth brother was really enlightened today. Wow, the girls here are so much prettier than the beauties selected from the palace!
Under Longkodo's secret dispatch, the most famous opera troupes in the entire capital were all called in.

After about an hour of happiness, Old Thirteen was the first to lose control of himself. He hugged his old lover and went to her nest.

As for the fourth brother, he was indeed a little drunk today and was really happy, so he put his arm around the most beautiful prostitute in the audience and went out to start combing the cages.

Yinyou personally sent the fourth son out and when he came back, he sat still.

After a brief thought, Longkodo guessed what Yinwei was thinking. The so-called good girl in front of him had no appeal to him at all.

"Master, I am incompetent and have not done my job well." Longkodo bent his waist and blamed himself repeatedly.

Yinyou knew that if Cao Jia had not been forced into a corner by her relative's inheritance of the title, she would never have taken the initiative to throw herself into his arms.

Similarly, it is hard to find an official’s wife who is willing to offer herself voluntarily.

Therefore, Longkodo, who boasted a lot, felt very insecure inside.

No matter what, the fourth brother had to win over Longkodo, and Yinyou could not disrupt this established strategy.

So, Yinyu smiled and said, "Long Lao San, you have plenty of time, take your time to look for it, I'm not in a hurry!"

Hearing that Yinyou was not angry, Longkodo breathed a sigh of relief. He had finally gotten through the danger.

"The matter of redeeming my body is all up to you!" Yinyu stood up and led the most famous prostitutes in the capital out to seek pleasure.

If you are just going incognito for fun, there is no need to redeem yourself.

However, Longkodo had made such a big fuss. If he did not redeem the girl he had played with from the dirty environment, if her bloodline was leaked, it would easily cause a big scandal.

When one is in a high position, one must think more and talk less. Longkodo smiled and patted his chest and said, "Master, please rest assured. I will take care of everything."

Since they wanted to redeem her, they must have redeemed all three girls. How could they redeem just one or two?
In the morning, when the sky was already bright, Yinyu walked into Changchun Garden with a refreshed mind when Kangxi got up.

Inside the residence, Zhang Tingyu had already arrived and was writing furiously, writing various excerpts.

Yinyou sat down in his own seat, picked up the small seal with the words "Got it", and began to stamp the greeting cards.

The ancestral rule of the Qing Dynasty was that all kinds of memorials must not be kept in the palace and not be issued.

In other words, as long as a memorial from Changchun Garden was submitted, the emperor had to take an attitude.

To be honest, Kangxi used to be very diligent in his work because he was cautious.

Now that his throne is secure, his pride and arrogance have naturally grown.

Apart from sporadic small-scale peasant uprisings, the whole world was in a state of peace and prosperity, so Kangxi inevitably became a little proud and neglected his duties.

As Yinyou stamped his seal, he thought to himself that the greeting letter was the ultimate formalism.

However, in order to maintain the dignity of imperial power, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not dare to abolish the system of paying respects.

To be honest, all the major issues in the world fall on the emperor's shoulders, which can easily make him collapse.

Qianlong, who had the most perfect political machine in history, was not afraid of handling government affairs at all. No matter how many petitions were submitted from various places, he was able to review them all on the same day.

However, Xianfeng was in a dilemma. Unable to ask outside officials for help, he could only ask Concubine Yi to secretly help him mark the memorials.

However, when Xianfeng was happily hugging Concubine Li, Concubine Yi was reading memorials by lamplight, which sowed the seeds of the Qing Dynasty's demise.

Soon, hundreds of greeting letters were dealt with.

"Someone come!" Yinyou called Wulin and asked him and Xiaojinzi to take the greeting letter with a small seal and deliver it to the memorial office in Changchun Garden.

There are also two memorial offices in the Qianqing Palace, divided into inner and outer ones.

However, Kangxi had been staying in Changchun Garden, so the Internal and External Affairs Office had to assign special people to serve in the garden.

To be honest, the small seal with the words "I know" invented by Yinyou did make Kangxi very satisfied.

The emperor had the privilege of writing orders with his red ink, and no minister dared to use it.

However, by stamping the letter of greeting, Kangxi neither worried about the power falling into the wrong hands nor solved the formalism that could not be abolished. It could be said that he killed two birds with one stone!
When Yinyou sat down to drink tea, Weizhu came.

"Fifteenth Master, the Emperor wants you to come to the study to see him."

After Yinyu entered the room, he saw Kangxi staring at a piece of paper on the table.

"Your Majesty, I, Yinyu, respectfully greet you!"

Kangxi raised his head and suddenly sighed: "The tree wants to be still, but the wind does not stop!"

This statement seems to be incoherent and confusing.

In fact, anyone who had spent a long time around Kangxi would have been able to tell that this was a message that something strange had happened in the Eastern Palace again.

Objectively speaking, Yinyou really couldn't understand why the prince had been deposed once, but had not learned any lessons and continued to do as he pleased.

As far as Yinyu knew, some time ago, the prince's disciples actually appeared in the Miyun camp.

Well, Miyun Camp and Tongzhou Camp are both the lifelines of Kangxi, how could they not be guarded?

Old Thirteen secretly won over the people of Miyun Camp and personally stayed in Miyun County. They were treated to good wine, good food and good girls, but they did not dare to get close to Miyun Camp at all.

Why did the fourth brother have the last laugh? This was the result of many careful details added together.

The fourth elder was a notorious lone minister. His smooth accession to the throne was mainly due to the help of Longkodo and the thirteenth elder, who helped him gain the morale of the army.

Kangxi was merely expressing his feelings and did not need Yinyou to answer.

"Little Fifteen, I have a very important mission for you. You must send people to keep a close eye on the Miyun Camp and the Tongzhou Camp to prevent any trouble. Do you understand?"

After Kangxi said this, Yinyou immediately understood. Maybe he had made up his mind to depose the crown prince for the second time?
In the current Qing Dynasty, the Crown Prince and the Eighth Prince are the objects of Kangxi's special observation, and he dare not be careless at all.

Among them, the prince who lived in the palace could easily cause internal strife and lead to the tragedy of Xuanwu Gate if he was not careful.

Between the crown prince and the eighth prince, it was obvious that Yinreng, who had been the crown prince for decades, posed the greatest threat to Kangxi.

In the vicinity of the capital, the main military forces, apart from the four major camps of the vanguard, cavalry, guards and infantry, are the eight banners of the imperial guards in Miyun and Tongzhou, which are the most important.

Put yourself in the prince's shoes and think about it from his perspective. If he really wants to implement the Xuanwu Gate succession method, he must take over one of the Miyun Camp and the Tongzhou Camp.

It was just a coincidence that Kangxi ordered Yinyou to keep a close eye on these two major military camps.

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