The gambling of the people continues. Romance debuts

When the night was getting darker, both the old concubines and the ten show girls in the inner courtyard of the palace were nervous.

Emperor Qingshun has not yet passed down the order, and there is no final conclusion on who will be able to seize the opportunity. Everyone waited with wide eyes.

Even Queen He in Fengzao Palace is no exception.

Today is the first day, she has no special arrangements, everything needs to be decided by Emperor Qingshun.

She has long lost any hope for herself, and on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, Emperor Qingshun's attitude of dealing with the people of the world, she has already seen it clearly. What kind of husband and wife love, what kind of harmony between emperors and queens, is just an empty place. But she is already old, and she no longer has any hope of giving birth to her own son.

She needs a son!

However, after all these years, she knows better than anyone that the first person who is really anxious in this harem will never be her. No matter how bad it is, there is already a big prince in this harem, and after a hundred years of Emperor Qingshun, it is okay to be a queen mother with her status as the queen.

It's just that Concubine Shu's grace and identity are there, if it weren't for the last resort, she would not want to share the power of the Queen Mother with others.

Hopefully, good news will come out among the ten new entrants to the palace.

Queen He, who knelt in front of the Buddhist shrine, clasped her hands together and prayed silently in her heart.

She doesn't believe in Buddhism, but the days in this harem are too difficult, and she always needs to find something to sustenance. And this clay Buddha shrine has unwittingly become the support of most of the women in the harem who have fallen out of favor but are not favored.

As the night deepened, the palace was brightly lit, and everyone was waiting, waiting for the final result. But what was surprising was that Emperor Qingshun did not let people sleep, but rested alone in Longyang Palace.

Such a result was really unexpected, and the long-awaited harem concubines finally knew that Emperor Qingshun really had no intention of being favored after most of the night passed, and they couldn't resist their tiredness and rested.

In the first night of the gamble, no one won the dealer cheaply, and Emperor Qingshun's abnormality surprised everyone.

However, instead of ending the already absurd gamble, some good deeds set off another round of gambling on the second and third days.

For three days in a row, Emperor Qingshun did not have any concubines, and stayed alone in Longyang Palace every night.

In the end, the result of many gambling houses is that the dealer becomes the big winner.

Zhao Xianyu, who was far away in Jiangyin City, heard the news of the capital, but a rare smile appeared on his face that was tormented by longing.

No one would have thought that the gambling game in the capital would be set off by him, let alone that the real winner would be Emperor Qingshun.

But no one knew that Emperor Qingshun, who slept alone for three consecutive days, was the final dealer and the real winner.

I don't know when the wind of private gambling in the capital, the atmosphere of extravagant gambling, those underground gambling houses hidden in the shadows, even the Eagle Guard is difficult to enter, and finally took the opportunity of this show girl to enter the palace by the Eagle Guard to investigate and crack it with lightning speed.

Seeing with his own eyes the huge amount of silver taels confiscated from the treasury, Emperor Qingshun did not show a smile on his face, but frowned tightly.

Those private underground gambling houses can be opened in the capital, and there are naturally supporting forces behind them. In the same way, those who can be qualified to enter the underground gambling house will not really be the people of the three religions and nine ranks.

Thinking of those who participated in gambling, not only the children of the gentlemen from the family, but also some courtiers who were entrusted with important use in the court, Emperor Qingshun's face was extremely ugly.

Especially the account books of some gambling houses that were confiscated, he was shocked after looking at them, and he usually looked like a decent man and gentleman above the court, but his private life was so extravagant, and even some courtiers owed huge debts to the gambling house.

This time, they are gambling with the private interests in the harem.

However, before this time, they even had the audacity to gamble on the affairs of the court, and even gambled on the appointment, dismissal, and promotion of some officials.

Eagle Guard's actions have always been to pull out the weeds and roots, not to mention that this time the investigation and punishment of the underground gambling houses was an unexpected action, but Rao was like this, and he was not able to find out strong evidence to prove that the supporting forces behind those underground gambling houses were the King of Qi.

Emperor Qingshun's brows did not loosen for a long time.

He was never a man of shadows, nor was he a suspicious king. Although he has an eagle guard by his side, the style of his courtiers has always been to use people without suspicion, and not to use suspicious people. However, the insinuations again and again really can't make him let go of the mustard in his heart.

After all, he is the lord of the world and the king of a country. How can the king's side of his couch tolerate the stretch of his hand?

*

The raid of the underground gambling house was laid out by the Eagle Guard from the very beginning, and neither the Yulin Guard nor the Royal Forest Army were used when the raid was made, and even the Guardian Palace in the capital was not alarmed.

Therefore, such a thunderous blow did not cause major turmoil in the capital, and the calm seemed to be no different from the usual days.

However, all this is only relative to the small people of Shengdou.

The turmoil above the court, the removal of officials, the transfer of personnel, and a series of actions of Emperor Qingshun have made people panic in the court. Originally, there were some old ministers who were very self-assured, and they were extremely dissatisfied with Emperor Qingshun's actions, and they wanted to fight on the basis of reason, but Emperor Qingshun abandoned those courtiers who were dismissed from high positions, and owed huge debts in underground gambling houses, and even some of them were not involved in gambling and were not held accountable by Emperor Qingshun, and no one dared to question Emperor Qingshun's actions for a while.

After Emperor Qingshun purged some of the best courtiers and re-promoted some young and useful officials, the order above the court was completely renewed.

Only then did the news of the underground gambling house spread by Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, and several illegal gambling houses were banned, so that some people who were originally oppressed by gambling debts were liberated. Then, the dereliction of duty of those gambling and corruption readers who had been degraded out of Beijing in the court was publicized recently, and suddenly the capital became lively. What the people love to watch the most is the fall of corrupt officials, and they naturally praise Emperor Qingshun.

For a time, Emperor Qingshun's prestige reached its peak in the capital, and everyone said that Emperor Qingshun was a rare Shengming king.

In the whole capital, there was a peaceful and joyful atmosphere, and the former emperor Mr. Mei Shao came to the capital. The name of the emperor Mei Shao has been known to everyone in the world many years ago, and his arrival has brought another excitement to the capital.

*

Zhao Xianyu went to Jiangyin City, found Quanshan, found Lingzhu Academy, and invited Mr. Mei Shao.

And this time, Mr. Mesau's trip to the capital was not low-key.

Long before Mr. Mei Shao and his party arrived in the capital, Zhao Xianyu had already ordered someone to release the news. Therefore, the carriage of Mr. Mesau and his party had just entered the east gate, and there were great cheers and joys on both sides of the road. It turned out that the students of Guozijian and various academies in the capital had already received the news of Mr. Mei Shao's visit to Beijing, and they spontaneously came to the city gate to greet them.

"What's going on?"

Mei Shao sat in the carriage, heard the cheers on both sides of the road, his face sank, glanced at Zhao Xianyu who was sitting beside him, and said dissatisfiedly: "Although the old man agreed to be summoned to Beijing with you, he didn't plan to move the people so much, what is the reason for your arrangement?" ”

"The name of Mr. is admired by all students all over the world. This time, Mr. was summoned to Beijing, and naturally many people in the capital knew about it. The students admired Mr. and came to greet him spontaneously, but it was not the intention of the boy and the emperor, and I hope that Mr. can understand. Zhao Xianyu didn't take Mei Shao's dissatisfaction to heart, only smiled sincerely, made up a few nonsense words, and refused to admit that he had revealed the news of Mr. Mei Shao's arrival in Beijing today in advance.

"Humph!"

Mei Shao is a world-renowned emperor, how could it be that Zhao Xianyu can be dismissed with a few flattering words. Mei Shao snorted coldly, only closed his eyes, and didn't look at Zhao Xianyu again. He knew that he had put on such a big formation in Beijing today, and he must have the intention of Emperor Qingshun, even so, it was meaningless to entangle with Zhao Xianyu.

"Master, the people in the capital are so enthusiastic."

"Master, a lot of them are waiting for you."

Mei Yuanzhu, that is, the former Xiaozhuzi, also followed Mr. Mei Shao to the capital this time, and was sharing a carriage with Mei Shao and Zhao Xianyu.

Mei Yuanzhu, who grows up in the mountains all the year round, although he has also wandered around Jiangyin City, the prosperity in the capital is not comparable to the small Jiangyin City. Especially outside the carriage, many students called Mr. Mei Shao enthusiastically, and let Mei Yuanzhu know for the first time that his master's reputation in the capital was not less than that of Jiangyin City.

"This is the capital, it's not as good as Jiangyin City, your out-of-the-box temperament will give me some restraint." Hearing Mei Yuanzhu's voice, Mei Shao opened his eyes again, didn't look over his head at Mei Yuanzhu, whose face was infected with many festive things, and faintly felt a little worried in his heart.

"Got it, master. Don't worry, I won't get you in trouble. Mei Yuanzhu listened to Mei Shao's explanation, and said nonchalantly: "Seeing that you are so popular in the capital, master, I am also your apprentice, and I will never embarrass your old man." ”

"Brother Zhao, the capital is your home, and my master and I are guests from afar, should you do your best to be a landlord." Mei Yuanzhu was impatient to listen to Mei Shao's preaching, and turned his head to laugh with Zhao Xianyu again.

"This is natural, didn't I tell you a long time ago, I will definitely treat you well when I get to the capital." Along the way, Mei Yuanzhu's cheerful and generous personality is very temperamental to Zhao Xianyu, although the two are quite different in age, they are already brothers.

Seeing Mei Yuanzhu excitedly talking to Zhao Xianyu about the benefits in the capital, and Zhao Xianyu was not half impatient, although one of them still likes to play, and the other is much calmer, they also talk happily. Mei Shao couldn't help but want to explain what he said to Xiaozhuzi, so he had to restrain his mind and hide the worries in his heart so that no one could see the clues.