Gu Zheng, who took out a feather duster and a square cloth towel from the utility room on the side, slowly walked into this incomparably mysterious Hanlin Courtyard with unknown responsibilities in the early morning.

The previous entrance, since it is the inner academy that is half-connected with the Qinzheng Palace, is connected together, this is the study room where there are many books from the previous dynasty at a glance, and there are basically no books added later, but it has been cleaned and tidy to the point of spotlessness.

Gu Zheng, who had just stepped into this study building, retreated without thinking about it, turned his head and walked in the direction of the rows of houses connected to the back of the study building.

In this independent courtyard, as expected, what Neiban said to him at the beginning, there were two powerful guards guarding the door.

After they carefully checked Gu Zheng's waist card and confirmed that this was Xiao Huangmen, they put him into the courtyard with a puzzled face.

Gu Zheng, who was deaf and clear-sighted, heard a whispered discussion at the door, and he deliberately slowed down his pace, but he heard this sentence clearly.

"In such an important place, the first to come was a small yellow door?"

The guard next to him was surprised and advised: "It's a newcomer who came to clean, I just hope he sees the things inside, and he doesn't break them." ”

The remaining two were strict-mouthed, but they didn't say a word, and quietly started to be the door god.

Gu Zheng, who was confused, could only take the basin and confirm it himself.

When Gu Zheng entered this small courtyard, he found that this place must have just been arranged in a hurry.

There are a few dead leaves and paper scraps scattered in the courtyard, and on the thick dust, you can still see a few clear rows of footprints passing through the carrying things.

I think this yard was originally vacant for a long time, but after being discovered, it was used again.

And when Gu Zheng pushed open the door of a room on the far right side of the courtyard, he found that the layout here was quite a place for a separate department in the imperial court.

Independent desk seats, shelves and bookcases behind each position, and even a half-high couch table for resting on one side, but the strange thing is that in this deep palace, there are so many positions, who is it for?

Thinking of this, Gu Zheng wiped a handful of cabinets that looked out of place with the room, except for the floating soil on the upper floor, these furniture were actually newly purchased.

This also provides great convenience for Gu Zheng's cleaning work.

Looking at the place that might become his future work place, Gu Zheng rolled up his sleeves, lifted his robe, tucked it into his belt, and half-squatted in front of these tables and chairs, doing his own work very carefully... Cleaning.

And this small body is really a loss, it took an hour of hard work to clean up this room, but Gu Zheng's always bent waist felt a burst of soreness.

Gu Zheng, who twitched the corner of his mouth, leaned against the wall and pushed open the door of the central room.

As soon as he pushed the door, Gu Zheng was stunned, and he even put down his hand holding his sore waist.

This is a separate room from the left and right sides, this central room, after opening a long room, sealed all the other extra doors into walls, leaving only the front and back doors, after special modification of the room.

And what could shock Gu Zheng was naturally the things placed in this room.

The sand table made of white sand and cement is divided into different sections, but they are all border topography maps of several countries that are now intertwined with the New Song Dynasty and stalemate with each other.

Hanging in the middle of this large room is a huge geographical map of mountains and rivers.

From this huge map of the most detailed map of this dynasty, Gu Zheng can see that the monarch of the new Song Kingdom named Zhao Kuangyin has the ambition in his heart that cannot be stopped.

Not only that, but after passing through the sand table and the map, there is also a separate space, where there are all bookshelves like the inner academy.

On these shelves, without exception, all of them are military books, as well as some military-related documents, letters, and even some exchanges between the generals of the former dynasty and the imperial court.

Now, all of them are gathered on these huge shelves, and looking at the past, it is dense and shocking.

was so shocked that Gu Zheng actually forgot to clean up, tilted his body slightly to the side of a bookshelf, picked up a book on it, and carefully flipped through it.

Such a complete set of military books is difficult to come across in all dynasties.

It's not that there isn't any, it's that Gu Zheng doesn't have the kung fu to get in touch at all.

Now that he has such a good opportunity, how could he, who loves learning, miss it and not watch it to his heart's content?

This look, I am immersed in it.

If it weren't for Gu Zheng's vigilance being so much more than others, he wouldn't have noticed that a person suddenly appeared in this special room.

When this person came, he didn't make a special cover-up, he seemed to be surprised that there would be other people in this room, and Gu Zheng, who had already raised his head, stared at him with big eyes.

Just after this person and Gu Zheng looked at each other silently for a few seconds, Gu Zheng, who was leaning crookedly on the shelf, put his hand on the side of the shelf, put down the robe around his waist, and placed the books in his hand on the shelf in a regular manner.

And after seeing Gu Zheng's series of unhurried movements, the middle-aged man asked with interest.

"Do you know who I am!?"

This statement is not a question but an affirmation.

And with this stubble, Gu Zheng lowered the top of his head slightly, and replied without humility or arrogance: "The kid knows that you are His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"Oh?" The man on the other side raised his eyebrows rarely, but he was more interested, dragged over a couch by the wall of the military map, sat on it, and continued to ask: "Since you know, you kid is not afraid? Looking at your appearance, I'm afraid you're not old, right?"

"How do you know my identity when you just entered the palace and came out on duty?"

After speaking, he looked at the old clothes he was wearing suspiciously, and his tone was a little suspicious.

And Gu Zheng on the other side still had a steady tone before, and he was not half afraid of answering: "Your Majesty the Sage has good eyesight, the kid is the third-class little yellow door who has just joined the Hanlin Academy today, Gu Zheng is also." ”

"The boy is indeed not very old, and he will be thirteen years old in the next year. ”

"But at such an age, among the people outside the palace, it is already the age to support the door, as the saying goes, the children of the poor are in charge of the house, and the age in His Majesty's mouth is not very old, but in fact it is not small. ”

Hearing Gu Zheng's words, the middle-aged man didn't know what he thought, he just sighed.

But when he heard the little yellow door on the other side, he continued to speak, and it seemed that he wanted to answer all the questions he had just raised before it was terminated.

In this regard, the really middle-aged man's heart actually had a feeling that this child was a little straightforward, but he continued to listen with great interest.

Who knows, this child's words about the difficulty of life came to an abrupt end, but continued to talk about his original fear or not.

"The boy has no long things, and he has entered the palace to get the favor of His Majesty, and has obtained a job that can support his family and survive in this troubled world. ”

"Naturally, there is gratitude and love for the giver of this work. ”

"What's more, I haven't done anything wrong, so I naturally don't need to be afraid in front of my own food and clothing. ”

"What's more, a clear monarch will only make the people and his subordinates love and admire, if one day everyone is afraid just because of this identity, it means that the majesty of this monarch is also biased, and everyone can only use fear to maintain his high status. ”

"Therefore, when I saw His Majesty now, I had nothing but gratitude and admiration, and no other worries in my heart. ”

Hearing this half-hidden and half-obscure sycophant, Zhao Kuangyin was physically and mentally comfortable, and the thoughts in his heart that could not be calmed down because of the chaotic situation around the country seemed to be a little more stable because of Gu Zheng's words.

Subconsciously, Zhao Kuangyin still asked one more question: "Then you haven't said it yet, how did you recognize my identity?"

When Gu Zheng heard this, he finally raised his eyelids and glanced up at Zhao Kuangyin, this person's suspicion is really serious enough.

The main purpose of daring to ask him is to know how an unknown little chamberlain recognized his identity, right?

Thinking of this, Gu Zheng replied seriously: "The kid is speculative. ”

"Oh?

"Exclusion method. ”

"This Hanlin Academy is a department that the saint has just established, and yesterday I just selected the only person in charge from the new phase of the internal servant candidate, and that is the boy me. ”

"And since the boy came here to take up his post, there has been no one but the two guards of the Royal Guards guarding the door. ”

"Besides, the building during this period was hastily arranged, and the cleaning work could only be done by the kid alone. ”

"The rules in the palace are that during the time of their duties on weekdays, the attendants are not allowed to leave their posts without permission and go to a place that does not belong to them to connect privately. ”

"And now it's early, and it's not yet the time to eat, so naturally it can't be the yellow door that delivers food from the imperial dining room. ”

And the room where the kid is located has a lot of incredible things in it, and the reason why these things are placed in the inner palace is naturally prepared for its privacy and secrecy. ”

"For people who can come and go freely in this room, and are not of the status of a brat, then there is only one possibility left, and that is that the real owner of this room, His Majesty the Emperor who established the Hanlin Academy, has come here. ”

"This is the real idea of the boy's guess, of course, there is a slightly more illusory statement, maybe the saint you don't believe it even after hearing it. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin was happy, and he continued to talk about: "Oh? What kind of idea is it, how can you decide it, I definitely won't believe it?"