Chapter 24: Changchun Palace

Rainy season.
There was another spring rain in Shaoliang City today, but the rain came quickly and went very quickly. It started at midnight last night and stopped at midnight. After it stopped, there was a lot of fog. The seat of the Great Zhou Emperor seemed to be wearing a layer of light gauze, which looked very hazy.
The Changchun Palace was brightly lit as early as Mao's time. The central palace of the Great Zhou imperial city was home to many ladies, and the significance of these ladies was to ensure the smooth operation of the palace every day and prevent anything from happening to Changchun Palace. Omission, after all, except for the emperor of Zhou who may spend the night in a concubine’s palace every night, the rest of the daylight scene must be spent in this Changchun Palace, so this who worked in this palace city The maids need to be more cautious. Before Mao Shi, almost all the eunuchs and maids had to leave the bed and come to the place where they should go, and light the lights in the Changchun Palace on time. After all, no one knows that the man who has always been a hero is both rough and diligent. When will the famous Emperor Zhou come to this Changchun Palace and start his day's work.
Today, the person responsible for lighting the lights of the Imperial Study is the Su Jin, the chief ceremonial supervisor of the inner court. As the head of the twelve eunuchs of the inner court, Su Jin is actually the head of the eunuchs in the imperial city who claims to have more than 10,000 eunuchs. In those years, there was even the right to approve red, but in the past 100 years, the Da Zhou system has changed more and more to take this very important right to approve red to oneself, but even so, the entire palace In the inner court, except for the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty and a group of people related to the royal family, the rest of the and palace ladies are under Su Jin's jurisdiction. This inner court palm-print manages all the trivial matters of the entire imperial city. Favored by the Emperor of the Great Zhou, he appeared to be more and more powerful, but no matter how strong he was, what Su Jin must do every day is to light the lights in the Imperial Study Room of the Changchun Palace and wait for the Emperor of the Great Zhou to arrive.
When Su Jin went out in Maoshi, the imperial city was still raining lightly. This short palm-print didn’t use lanterns or an umbrella. He let the spring rain wet his temples, but walked with his arms folded. In the palace wall, many eunuchs with lanterns on the road didn’t bother to see them. Only occasionally a few ladies who saw the with the help of the dim light of the lanterns were silent and stood there. On the side of the palace wall, head down, and honestly waited for the to pass before daring to stand up.
No one dared to take the initiative to talk about this palmprint eunuch.
It is indeed this man who has been in the Great Zhou Palace for 20 years. He has accumulated a lot of prestige. Everyone knows his temperament. How dare he do other things? It is rumored that a criminal law newly added by the Penal Department of the Great Zhou Dynasty a few years ago Buried in the soil, only one human head is exposed, then the prisoner’s scalp is cut and mercury is poured down from the human skull. The prisoner will be itchy and unbearable. When climbing up, the skin will separate and the skin will fall off. The handwriting of the eunuch.
Although it was just a rumor, no one in the palace wanted to confirm whether this matter was true.
It's just that if someone really looks at the face of the palmprint eunuch, he will actually feel that he is really kind, and there is a little bit of viciousness.
As the person in the palace most favored by the emperor of the Great Zhou, the matter of lighting the lamp of the imperial study room naturally fell on him. In fact, the eunuchs of the eunuchs in the imperial palace of the Great Zhou were all personally involved in this matter, so the palace only has to do it. The saying that the emperor's approaching minister must step into the imperial study.
Before entering the Imperial Study Room, Su Jin stood on the jade steps outside the Imperial Study Room for a while, then slowly opened the door and walked into the Imperial Study Room.
After taking out the Huozhezi from his sleeve and lighting the lamp of the Imperial Study Room, Su Jin walked out of the Imperial Study Room slowly. During this period, he did not take a look at the layout of the Imperial Study Room. After closing the door, Su Jin was quiet outside the Imperial Study Room. Waiting for the emperor of the Great Zhou.
Within a quarter of an hour, a middle-aged man wearing a black robe, combing his hair at random, came to the door of the Imperial Study Room, and glanced at Su Jin who was waiting, but he didn't rush in. Yushufang, just looking at the dim sky in the distance, the Great Zhou Emperor smiled and said, "Su Zhangyin, what's new in the palace today?"
Now it’s only Mao, and the weather is not clear yet, where is something new? If someone else asks these words, naturally they will not get the answer from the palmprint eunuch, but now, the palmprint just He whispered: "On the side of Huaining Palace, Li Fei asked a little who had just entered the palace to pass over. According to the old slave, the little had stuffed money in the bidet room, but he didn't actually cleanse her body."
There is no need to finish a sentence, but what is revealed is enough.
Throughout the dynasties, there have been no few major and minor things in the imperial city, and those pickled things are even more common.
The middle-aged man was silent for a moment and frowned, "Li Fei entered the Yeyou Court. As for the little eunuch, see if you have any skills. If it can still be used, send it to the frontier. As for the bidet room, Whichever minion did it, just cut it off, don’t involve others."
The middle-aged man who had already dealt with the royal scandal in a few words sighed and suddenly asked, "Which daughter is Li Fei?"
Su Jin whispered: "Shaoliang City Yang Family, Li Fei's younger brother happens to be the official servant Yang Changyun."
The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Yang Changyun is a very talented young man. It's a bit pitiful to have such a sister, Su Jin, after dawn, you will go out of the palace and go to Yang's house. Disposal told them that there is no need to say more about the others. If someone from the Yang family enters the palace to beg for mercy, he will expel Li Fei from the palace. If not, you don't need to tell me."
Su Jin nodded and said no more.
But when the palmprint was about to leave, the emperor Da Zhou, who wore a black robe, asked again: "Princess Anyang went out of the palace yesterday, who did you see?"
Su Jin's gully old face suddenly showed a wry smile, and said helplessly: "His Royal Highness has been such a temperament since she was a child. She is strange and strange. After leaving the palace, she dumped the Ouchi guards. The slave is really true. I don’t know where the princess went yesterday."
The emperor Da Zhou joked: "If you hadn't spoiled that girl since childhood, could she be so reckless?"
Su Jin lowered his head and said softly: "Old slaves dare not do this."
Before pushing open the door of the imperial study room, the emperor said: "By the way, if the girl from Anyang comes, you have to stop her for me."
Su Jin smiled bitterly and said, "The old slave is going to go to Yang's house after waiting for a while. How can I block the princess for your majesty?"
The emperor Da Zhou shook his head, as if a little angry, but he waved his hand afterwards, indicating that he didn't care.
He bowed his body and watched the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty walk into the Yushufang, and then closed the wooden door of the Yushufang. This Su Jin, who has been in the palace for at least fifty years and has become a palm print for twenty years He had been watching the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty from a babbled child to become the monarch of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so it was not surprising that he knew his temperament very well.
Standing outside the imperial study room, Su Jin could vaguely look at the figure of the Emperor Da Zhou with his head down at his desk. Su Jin had no expression on his face. I am afraid that no one in the Da Zhou Dynasty could be more tired than this, and no one could bear the burden on his shoulders. heavier.
Su Jin stood outside the imperial study room for about two quarters of an hour. After the two middle-aged eunuchs arrived, he nodded. Before leaving, he did not forget to say: "When your majesty approves the son, except for the princess, the rest are not allowed. Go in."
The two middle-aged eunuchs with ordinary faces nodded and should be, "Su Zhangyin, don't worry, the slave and maid will know about it."
Su Jin didn’t say anything any more, turned and left, going to the inner court to deal with the matter of leaving the palace. The Great Zhou Dynasty had extremely strict control over the eunuchs leaving the palace, even if he Su Jin is now the head of the twelve prisons. The first eunuch, and the emperor's verbal order, but if you want to go out of the palace, you must report to the inner court, if you go out of the palace privately, the end will be just as bad.
Inside the Imperial Study Room.
The emperor of Zhou looked at the memorials piled up like a hill in front of him and rubbed his head. Although he has always been known by the government and the public as the word diligence, he also had a headache watching these memorials.
It’s just that after sighing, the emperor of the Great Zhou picked up the memorial and read it from the top, but after a while, the emperor of the Great Zhou began to spit out some words such as "jerk" and "idiot" in his mouth. It's so big, I don't know how far it is from outside the Imperial Study.
Obviously, the two eunuchs guarding outside the Imperial Study Room had not experienced this scene for the first time, so they were all expressionless and unmoved.
Soon, His Majesty the Emperor in the Imperial Study Room began to chant the names of some people, and the two of them silently began to remember which minister in the court was the most frequently chanted by His Majesty. At the end of the count, the two looked at each other. Seeing the helplessness in the other's eyes.
Yes, today it is the name of the old man Xin Taikang that has been mentioned by His Majesty the most times.
For the old man who is in charge of the treasury's money, the current household secretary, whenever the emperor wants to use the money, he always comes out to sing the opposite, saying that it is not easy to accumulate money, and that the treasury has little money and food, anyway, he will not let the emperor. Your Majesty took out the money and food from the treasury so easily, and even if he wanted to take it, he tried his best to minimize the cost. Therefore, in fact, the officials said in private that the old man was nothing but the old man. , Even for fun.
And this emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, although he often irritated the old man, he also knew that it was the great fortune of the country to have such an official book from the household department, so he has never given up on that old man’s thoughts, or even the old man’s much. The resignation was rejected by the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, this court had the statement of the Ministry of Households and the Master of Jiayan.
The former refers to the old man Xin Taikang, while the latter is naturally an innocent joke made by some ministers of the DPRK to the Xie family.
At this time, in the Imperial Study Room, the emperor of Zhou was opening a frontier memorial. There were not many words on it. There was not much ink in the thick belly of the elder of the frontier army. Naturally, he did not write memorials like the civil servants in the court. Can be literary.
Say everything you need to say in a few words.
After that Xie Ying rushed to the frontier, he slashed more than 10,000 cavalry in the Southern Wei Kingdom in the first battle, and only a thousand people were damaged in the battle.
After closing the memorial, the emperor of Da Zhou laughed heartily, "What a Xie Jiabao tree, I really live up to my expectations of you!"