The woman has the support of the Queen Mother and is very arrogant. actually spit on Gonggong Long's face, and said: "It was the official family who asked you to go to the palace to fight voles, have you ever gone to the queen mother's bedroom to ask a question? But there is no Queen Mother in your eyes, what are you still arguing about here? Don't you immediately go and kowtow to the Mother to make amends, if it's too late, the Queen Mother said, but be careful of your skin!"

Only then did Gonggong Long understand that the Queen Mother was jealous.

Because it is the emperor's decree and the emperor's favor to fight mice. And the queen mother is the lord of the six palaces, and if she doesn't go to her bedroom first to ask, she will go to another bedroom, and her face will not look good. The queen mother was angry, thinking that these minions would not know how to do things, so she lost her temper, which made these palace maids and eunuchs suffer a lot, and hurriedly ran over and shouted for Gonggong Long to kowtow and confess their guilt.

In fact, Gonggong Long was like a mirror in his heart, knowing that the Queen Mother was not a drunkard. The emperor's body is getting worse day by day, and this is also seen by discerning people. This is the critical moment for the three palaces and six courts to seize the throne with their ability, including the emperor's mother, she is nothing else, just because all the children under the emperor are still young, no matter who becomes the emperor, she will definitely be in charge of the government when she comes. So even if you don't talk about it, the urgent desire to show authority in your heart is obviously strengthened, including such a small thing as catching voles.

Gonggong Long was very frightened, he was old in the rivers and lakes, but he missed in such a trivial matter, he was a little annoyed, and immediately made amends, and then he didn't care about explaining anything to Chen Meiren, and immediately took a large group of palace maids and eunuchs to hurriedly go to the Empress Dowager Gao's bedroom.

Seeing that these people came and went like a tide, Chen Meiren shook her head secretly, hugged her son, kissed his little face and said, "You can see, in this world, if you can't become a master, you can only be bullied." Even if you are a royal family, I am afraid that it is not as easy as ordinary people. ”

Gonggong Long took a group of people and ran to the Empress Dowager Gao's bedroom. was about to go in, but was stopped by the father-in-law at the door, telling them that the queen mother was uncomfortable and didn't want to see people, so they should do what they should do.

This sentence made Gonggong Long a little embarrassed, because what to do and why to go, it can be understood as letting them go, and it can also be understood as letting them catch voles.

Because he had already learned from the past, even if Gonggong Long felt that the first possibility was greater, he still chose the second possibility to execute. It is better to choose to scold again if you make a mistake, and you can't invite a big disaster because you don't look at the Queen Mother in your eyes. Even if he is the emperor's personal eunuch, but the emperor's mother wants him to die, the emperor is afraid that he can't defend it.

Therefore, Gonggong Long immediately ordered this group of palace female eunuchs to conduct a dragnet search of the Empress Dowager Gao's bedroom to find voles. Because I have searched carefully before, I didn't find any voles, and the places that should be blocked are also blocked, but this must still be done, and it can't be too noisy, if it disturbs the queen mother in the palace, there is also no good fruit to eat.

When they searched for a green meadow in the queen mother's garden, they heard a scream from a fat palace maid with a fat head and big ears, and her whole body actually sank under the grass out of thin air.

Everyone was startled, and when they saw her embarrassment clearly, they realized that she was too fat, and she actually stepped on the turf and fell into the grass.

Everyone was immediately amazed, how could this meadow be trampled into, this is not a swamp. Everyone was puzzled, and was about to come and pull her out of the grass, but this person was too fat to pull her out of the grass for a while.

Everyone was thinking of a way, and at this moment, they suddenly heard the fat palace maid screaming in horror, and supported her hands on the grass to crawl out. But as her hand pressed down violently, the surrounding grass also collapsed.

Immediately, a squeaky scream was heard in everyone's ears, the sound was familiar and terrifying. The person who was close to her almost fell into the pit, and quickly let go of his hand and stepped back, but his eyes saw clearly, it turned out that the fat palace maid was stepping on this piece was densely packed with voles. Tumbling and screaming, some rushed up and gnawed the feet of the palace maid, making the palace maid scream in pain.

Now everyone was stunned, and after a moment's wait, they rushed up and stretched out their hoes and shovels for her to grasp, and then they dragged her out of the meadow with all their might.

It's just that the palace maid was too fat, she screamed and climbed out with all her might, but the turf around her continued to collapse as she crawled out, until her body was leaning on the side of the stone road, which dragged her out violently, and at the same time dragged out a slope to the bottom of the pit.

As her body was dragged out of the pit, a tingling scene appeared: from the pit came a tidal wave of countless voles, all the size of a civet cat, with pointed teeth and eyes shining green. After crawling out, they ran in all directions, some fast, some slower, and many rolled on the ground in pain after running out of the hole, kicking and screaming in the air with four paws.

The palace maids turned pale with fright, and their feet jumped on the ground, as if they were stepping on a red-hot iron instead of a field.

The eunuchs were so bold that they picked up the shovels and hoes in their hands and slammed the voles that came out one by one. But there were so many voles that they were pouring out of the hole like a flood. In an instant, Empress Dowager Gao's yard was full of voles, rushing to all corners.

In the house, Empress Dowager Gao was sitting in front of the window watching the folds.

These days, his son Song Shenzong's condition is getting worse and worse, so he transferred some inconsequential pieces to his mother, Empress Dowager Gao, and asked her to help review them.

Empress Dowager Gao's ability to deal with state affairs is still very reassuring to Song Shenzong, before this, Song Shenzong's illness has worsened several times and he is unable to take care of state affairs, all of which are done by Empress Gao on behalf of him.

The queen of Song Shenzong was kind-hearted and couldn't make a decision, so her mother Empress Gao handled it on her behalf, including summoning ministers to discuss, and organizing discussions, and finally making a decision and issuing an edict to execute, all of which were handled by Empress Dowager Gao. And now, Song Shenzong felt that his condition was very serious, so he asked his mother to take care of part of the folds for him again.

The piece she was looking at now turned out to be written by Sima Guang, whom she admired very much, and it was to recommend the newly promoted imperial physician Yang Xianmao to Emperor Song Shenzong to serve as the general judge of Kaifeng Mansion.

Kaifeng Prefecture is the direct controller of Tokyo Bianliang and the core of handling Tokyo Bianliang government affairs. According to the convention, the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion is concurrently served by the prince himself, and the quality of Kaifeng Mansion's rule is directly related to the safety of the capital, and it is impossible for someone who is not the emperor to rest assured to be placed in this post.

Although the general judgment level is not high, it has a lot of power. Because according to the rules, major decisions made by the governor of the prefecture and county must be jointly signed by the general judge after review, which will be effective. Therefore, the general judgment is an important weight for the emperor to restrain the state and county seal officials, and it is the key from small to large.

As an important minister of the imperial court for many years, Sima Guang certainly knew the importance of this Kaifeng Mansion official. Such an important position is actually recommended to a doctor, and judging from the information, he is still an apprentice in the hospital. It was only because of the joint sponsorship of Sima Guangfubi and Wen Yanbo that the emperor promoted him to be a imperial doctor. Unexpectedly, it has only been a few days, and this Sima Guang wants to sponsor him to be the general judge of Kaifeng Mansion, which is too fast.

After the preliminary examination of Zhongshumen, I felt that it was not appropriate to present it directly to the emperor, because now Song Shenzong was overwhelmed by the plague, and this Xiao Langzhong was promoted to an official because some methods of treating the plague some time ago were appreciated, and he could not be let be a deacon so quickly, so he sent the song to the Queen Mother and let her decide.

Empress Dowager Gao snorted and threw the fold into the basket that was not approved.

There are often three ways to deal with the review and review, one is to make a detailed review and put forward your own handling opinions. The other is a simple circle reading, indicating that you have seen it, but you will not deal with it for the time being. It will take some time for the person in charge of the Zhongshu to report these circled folds to the emperor again, to give the emperor time to think, and to remind him that there is such a thing. And the third one does nothing and just knocks it back. This kind of disposition actually expresses that the emperor does not agree with the content of the fold, and is even annoyed, so he will return the fold as it is.

Now the Empress Dowager Gao uses the third method for Sima Guang's recital, without making any instructions, and directly returning the recital, so that Sima Guang can know her own meaning.

But when Empress Dowager Gao was about to reach out for another piece of paper, her hand stopped again, because she knew that Sima Guangshi would not recommend someone easily.

Sima Guang's talent is very appreciated by Empress Dowager Gao, especially since he is resolutely opposed to the new law like Empress Dowager Gao. He even disagreed with the emperor because of his opposition to the new law, and finally chose to withdraw from the center of power and write books in Luoyang behind closed doors. In the end, he wrote a huge work "Zizhi Tongjian", which was highly praised by Song Shenzong, and the Empress Dowager Gao also read it, and felt that it was indeed a masterpiece of the world.

With a person like Sima Guang, if he wasn't really optimistic, how could he recommend a young man to the imperial court twice.

In addition, Empress Dowager Gao suddenly remembered one thing, that is, she had been helping her son Song Shenzong review the recital for some days. Because my son's condition has always been very serious, he can't work too hard. This is something that the government and the opposition also know, so some of the less important recitals are reviewed by her.

And Sima Guang is old in officialdom, of course he knows that his twists and turns may not reach the emperor's hands and will be detained. Because Sima Guang was a very hard-line opposition, Song Shenzong was determined to implement reforms. In this case, Song Shenzong was only afraid that he would not be interested in the person recommended by Sima Guang. Of course, the officials under the Zhongshu sect who were responsible for the preliminary review of the recital knew this, so when it was played, it would definitely be directly distributed to the empress dowager, so Sima Guang actually did not recommend talents to the emperor, but to himself, the empress dowager.

If this is the case, then the person recommended by Sima Guang is likely to be a person who has strong opposition to the change, so it is possible to be appreciated by Sima Guang, and such a person is definitely eager for Empress Dowager Gao.

So, Empress Dowager Gao picked up the fold again, read it carefully, pondered for a while, picked up the pen and drew a circle on it, and threw it into the frame of the circle. It means that let the subordinates of Zhongshu wait a few days and then submit this recital again, and take a look at it for themselves. She wanted to use this time to take a good look at what skills this young imperial doctor recommended by Sima Guang twice were worthy of such admiration.