The King of Qi was defeated, and the number of people involved was increasing every day. Qi State was the first to be arrested, and the palace was also a severely affected area. It was the earliest. Hundreds of people were imprisoned on the night of the emperor's assassination. After severe torture, they vomited more names. A few months later, the number of people in prison had reached 1,300, and so far, none of them had been released.

No one knows when this cleaning will last, and no one knows who will be the next prisoner.

"At first, everyone thought it was normal. After all, the assassin had been hiding in the palace for several years. He should have checked it thoroughly, but now everyone doesn't think so anymore. Everyone thinks... they all think..." Although Zhang Youcai was brave, there were things he dare not say.

"Do you think the Empress Dowager has ulterior motives?" Han Ruzi continued on for him.

"Well, there are more and more outsiders in the palace, like Zuo Ji, who is about to cover the sky with just one hand, but he is just an ordinary eunuch in Cishun Palace, not even the Central General Service." Zhang Youcai said indignantly that the person he hated the most was not the queen mother, but Zuo Ji.

"Jing Yao is an old man in the palace and his status seems to be very stable." Han Ruzi often saw Jing Yao stamping the seal seriously in Qinzheng Hall, and felt that he was very trusted by the Queen Mother.

"Because he caught the most people." Zhang Youcai's voice was a little loud, and he hurriedly shut up. After listening for a while, he continued: "In order to maintain his position, Jing Yao tried his best to catch people in the palace, and even the confidants who had followed him for many years did not let go. He said, 'It's a traitor or a loyal person. You can only know if you go to prison once or twice', but he himself didn't go in once."

Han Ruzi turned to Tong Qing'e's general position, "Assassin is an eunuch, is the palace maid also implicated?"

"Ah?" Tong Qing'e sobbed in horror, "There is no eunuch or palace maid in the palace. As long as you have dated Qiu Jizu and Shen Sanhua, even if you just say a few words, you will be arrested and interrogated. Zhang Youcai and I don't know how long we can serve Your Majesty. I heard..."

"Although I'm not the queen mother," Han Ruzi encouraged.

"I heard that the Empress Dowager was going to call eunuchs and palace maids from the palace and gardens outside, saying that they would not have bad intentions. We old people will be driven out of the palace in the future to guard the tombs in remote places, and some people will be buried with Emperor Si." Tong Qing'e became more and more timid as if a mosquito was roaring.

Although life in the palace is not very superior, no one is willing to leave. Burying a dead person is a dead person, and guarding a tomb is a living dead person. Even if he is transferred to the palace and garden forest in other places, it is similar to that of ordinary people who are exiled, and it is difficult to have a chance to make a comeback.

Han Ruzi felt that the Empress Dowager would not change everyone in the palace. This was probably a false statement from the eunuchs and the palace maids after they were frightened, but this emotion was not harmful to him. He said to Zhang Youcai again: "Tell me what's going on with you 'hard people'."

In the darkness, Zhang Youcai took a deep breath, "We have all sworn to never give to outsiders-Your Majesty forgives your sins, the outsiders I mean..."

"I understand, you can continue to talk." Han Ruzi could understand that the emperor and concubines were the masters and the "outsiders" in the eyes of slaves.

"Please don't misunderstand that we are not an organization, we don't even have a name, and we don't have ambitions. We just help each other, share food, take care of others when we get sick, convey news when we have important things, and sometimes we will raise money to make someone filial to the boss. If anyone is promoted because of this, just remember the friend of the past. We have a saying - don't forget the old knowledge once you are rich."

"'Don't forget the old knowledge once you are rich and noble." Han Ruzi muttered, vaguely remembering that an old man said something similar.

Tong Qing'e whispered: "Zhang Youcai, you really say everything, and you are not afraid of your Majesty's jokes."

Han Ruzi said seriously: "How can you make a joke? This is what I want to say to you, 'Don't forget your old knowledge once you are rich and honored', you are my old knowledge."

Zhang Youcai and Tong Qing'e kowtowed under the bed, and Han Ruzi suddenly remembered something, "Chen Sanhua confessed that the assassin Qiu Jizu once bribed him, and Qiu Jizu is also yours?"

"No, no, Qiu Jizu is not." Tong Qing'e hurriedly denied, "Chen Sanhua is the case. Qiu Jizu was relatively rich as soon as he entered the palace, and was not the same as us miserables. Chen Sanhua is one of the people we raised money and carried it up. He has never forgotten us old friends and is usually very good at taking good care of us, but now he is locked in jail and I heard that he is tortured every day."

"Are you worried that Chen Sanhua can't hold on and will confess you miserable people?"

The two under the bed kowtowed again, which was exactly what they were most worried about. Tong Qing'e was originally cautious, but Zhang Youcai told most of the things she said, and she no longer hid her own personal information. "We have never done anything except to raise money to pay our respects to our superiors. We often warn each other not to cause trouble. Even if anyone is wronged, we just go over to comfort us and never help with revenge. But this is the palace, and most of the bosses and eunuchs have backers, and are not from the same place as us. As for the queen mother..."

Tong Qing'e still didn't dare to continue talking. Zhang Youcai said: "The Empress Dowager doesn't understand the suffering of us at all. Once she hears about our affairs, she will definitely be furious and treats us as an assassin's party, but we are really not."

This group of eunuchs and palace maids were desperate, otherwise they would not have been asked to come to the puppet emperor.

Han Ruzi asked: "You... should be called 'hard people'."

Although Zhang Youcai was young, he reacted quickly and immediately kowtowed, "Thank you for your name."

Han Ruzi smiled. He didn't care about the hidden organization of slaves in the palace. Instead, he felt that this was an excellent opportunity. "How many of you miserable people are there?"

"About... forty or fifty people, these are all people who know the roots. With friends, the number is even greater, and there are still four or five hundred." Zhang Youcai replied.

"You are so young that you know the roots of the problem?" Han Ruzi smiled. Zhang Youcai was about the same age as him, and he didn't look like a "big man".

"Actually I am not. I am just a 'friend of friends', until today..."

"I am." Tong Qing'e said that at this time, there is no need to hide anything anymore.

"You are? I thought you just heard about it today, just like me." Zhang Youcai was startled.

"I am. When Zuo Ji chose a palace maid to teach... the way of husband and wife, everyone raised money to honor a eunuch in charge and recommended me to Zuo Ji. I thought I could please Zuo Ji after making a contribution, but Your Majesty was not close to women. Zuo Ji accused me of being incompetent, but I offended him instead."

Han Ruzi was silent. Even bribery had to get bribed to sleep with the emperor. I really didn’t know whether to be proud or sad about it. “Forty or fifty people should be enough. Who among you know martial arts?”

"No, but a few of us have a good relationship with the guards." Tong Qing'e said.

"My friends don't want to, just like you guys." Han Ruzi didn't want to expand the scope.

"What does Your Majesty want us to do?" Zhang Youcai was very excited. He was pulled into the core circle of "hard people" by his friends today, and he was already thinking about doing big things. "We are not afraid of death, we dare to do anything."

Han Ruzi smiled. He didn't dare to use a group of "hard people" to engage in palace revolution. It would not only harm them, but also harm himself. "It would be better to be alive. I don't want to die, nor would you let you die, um..." A thought gradually came to his mind, "One day, this day may come soon, I will need your help, either the palace revolution, or the war, or the same place with me, where I will ascend the throne again and become a real emperor, and then - 'Don't forget the old knowledge once a day'."

The two kowtowed again.

"We should make an agreement on a secret code. As long as someone tells you a secret code, you will find someone immediately and go and meet me." Han Ruzi tried to make the plan safer.

"'People who are miserable' are very good." Tong Qing'e said.

"Okay, that's it. The person who sent the code to you may not be me, you believe it is."

The emperor actually had other people available, which made Tong Qing'e and Zhang Youcai even happier. They kept kowtowing. Han Ruzi persuaded him: "That's it, remember, what I'm going to do is a bit dangerous, but I won't kill anyone. I don't want to kill anyone in the palace, do you understand?"

"I understand." The two of them said in the same voice. Zhang Youcai was young after all, and he couldn't help but feel a little calmer. He said, "Your Majesty must be fast. We are scared every day. Once Shen Sanhua lets go, we... can't do anything for Your Majesty."

"Well, I will do it as soon as possible." Han Ruzi couldn't guarantee the time, so he couldn't decide. He had to wait for the opportunity to wait for the imperial concubine and Luo Huanzhang to implement their plan.

The Grand Tutor Cui Hong will definitely sneak back to the capital secretly. Once he arrives, Luo Huanzhang will take out two imperial edicts, respectively, to remove the positions of Grand Sima of the Southern Army and the General of the Imperial Palace, and then hand them over to the Cui family. The Imperial Concubine and the King of East Sea will cooperate with him inside and outside in the palace.

Han Ruzi found that he had a glimmer of opportunities: the imperial edict in Luo Huanzhang's hand was written by him, and the Cui family must also be under his banner of uprising. As long as he escaped the murder of the Imperial Concubine and the King of Donghai on the day of the uprising and appeared in front of the ministers in time, everything would be his. The Cui family would never dare to kill the monarch in public. As for how to deal with the Cui family in the future, I will not consider it for now.

The problem is that he doesn't know what measures will the Imperial Concubine and the King of East China Sea take.

Han Ruzi was not in a hurry to see the queen mother, but was eager to see another person coming - Meng E was the person he needed the most at the moment. He had a plan that only Meng E could help realize.

"Go to sleep." Han Ruzi said, feeling no longer empty and uneasy.

In the first half of the night, none of the three people in the bedroom fell asleep. Zhang Youcai was so excited that he tossed and turned around. Tong Qing'e was full of worries. Han Ruzi always listened and looked forward to Meng'e's appearance.

Therefore, when the ground suddenly swayed and the house was shaking in the middle of the night, they all sat sleepy and lost.

On the third day of the first lunar month of the first year of Chenggong, the capital earthquake occurred. At that time, no one expected that its impact would be so great.

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