A moment later, a middle-aged eunuch who was about thirty walked into the side hall and bowed to Liu Wei who was standing in the hall.

"Chen Dongguan Huang Gate waiter Xu Yan greeted Shi Hou. ”

"Hmm. ”

Liu Wei nodded slightly, and at the same time looked up and down at the same time.

Don't think that the ten permanent servants are in charge, and they think that the eunuchs in the Han Palace are all flattering people, but in fact, the Ten Standing Servants Group is only a handful of more than 2,000 eunuchs in the Han Palace.

For example, Lu Qiang, a member of the Zhongchang Servant who had been framed and forced to death by the Ten Standing Servants in the early years, was also a eunuch, and he was a great eunuch, and his rank was no different from Zhao Rang, Zhao Zhong and others, and he was also trusted by Emperor Ling.

However, historical records record that 'the emperor knew his loyalty but could not use it', which is very interesting.

What kind of reason is it that the Spirit Emperor knows that Lu Qiang is loyal to him but can't use it?

Is it because of the obstruction of the ten permanent servants?

Not necessarily!

I remember that in history, when He Jin wanted to kill the ten permanent servants, he wanted to summon foreign troops into Beijing, and Cao Cao, the captain of the Xiyuan Palace, said: The eunuch is an official, ancient and modern, and the emperor is not properly controlled, and he is too powerful to favor the eunuchs, which has led to the situation to this point. If you want to punish the crimes of the eunuchs, you should punish the evil, one jailer is enough, why call foreign generals one after another?

In fact, this is indeed the case, especially if Emperor Ling wants to get rid of the Ten Standing Attendants, it is even easier, if you give an order, will the Ten Standing Servants still dare to rebel?!

Then the question arises, since it is not the reason for the ten permanent servants, why does the historical data say that the emperor knows his loyalty and cannot use it?

The reason is very simple, because Lu Qiang is a regular servant in the camp of partial scholars, and Emperor Ling, in fact, he also knows that the danger of scholars is greater than that of the ten permanent servants, so he does not need Lu Qiang, and tacitly ignores the ten permanent servants to frame Lu Qiang, and even pretends to listen to the slander of the ten permanent servants, sends someone to arrest him, and commits suicide in anger.

This is not to wash the ground for the Spirit Emperor.

In fact, whether it is Emperor Huan or Emperor Ling, these two generations of Han monarchs are full of faint monarchs, but they are still very sensitive to imperial power, and at that time, when Liang Ji, a foreign relative, was executed, and the ministers were powerful, which forced the two Han monarchs to weaken the power of the courtiers by the hands of eunuchs, and then there were two disasters of the party.

If it weren't for the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by the Zhang Jiao brothers who were too fierce, until the first year of Zhongping, Emperor Ling didn't want to pardon the party members.

However, Lu Qiang was biased towards scholars in his position, and even pleaded for the party many times, which led to Emperor Ling's loyalty but unable to use it'.

Therefore, it is right to say that Empress He scolded He Jin for being unplanned, he is even more stupid than Emperor Ling!

In addition, there are some official eunuchs in the Han Palace who hold a neutral position and never involve political struggles, among which the famous ones are mainly in Dongguan, such as Jiyin Ding Su, Nanyang Guo Tan, Ruyang Li Xun, Beihai Zhao You, and the Xiapi people who came today, Xu Yan.

These little yellow men were friendly with Lu Zhi, Yang Biao, Ma Riyan and other officials in the DPRK and China, but they never involved politics, so the ten permanent servants did not specifically target them, until two years later, when the Luoyang Palace changed, the so-called 'He Jin generals' headed by Yuan Shao, the captain of the Sili School, and Yuan Shu, the general of the Hu Ben Zhonglang, broke into the Han Palace and killed more than 2,000 eunuchs in the Han Palace.

Ding Su, Xu Yan, Guo Tan, Li Xun, Zhao You and other eunuchs who were called 'Qingzhong' by the scholars also all died in this catastrophe.

What is ridiculous is that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu thought that they could replace He Jin and He Miao's position in the court, but they never thought of making a bad move, and in the end they were taken advantage of by Dong Zhuo and completely buried the Han family.

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Wei became more and more disgusted with Yuan.

At this time, Xu Yan had already bowed down and said: "Shi Hou forgives the sin, the minister took the liberty to come to disturb today, and he was entrusted by Lu Shangshu and several other adults. ...... Two days ago, you got a letter from Cai Langzhong, saying that Miss Cai was favored by Shi Hou, and asked to accompany Shi Hou in the Han Palace, and implored several adults to take care of ......"

"Wen Ji entered the palace yesterday, why didn't you come yesterday?"

Liu Wei looked at Xu Yan with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Uh......"

Xu Yan showed a little embarrassment on his face.

The fact is just as Liu Wei guessed, in fact, when Cai Yan entered the palace yesterday, Lu Zhi, Yang Biao and others had already gotten the news, but these courtiers had never dealt with Liu Wei before, and they didn't dare to come to see him rashly, so as not to be misunderstood to support Cai Yan and threaten the prince in disguise.

Therefore, Lu Zhi, Yang Biao and others decided to wait and see the changes first, after all, as far as they knew, Shi Hou liked Cai Yong's daughter, so he took this girl to the palace, and it should be unlikely that he would treat Cai Yan badly.

Facts proved that their guesses were at a loss, today they entered the palace, they heard that Liu Wei was very fond of Cai Yan, twice took Cai Yan into the Changqiu Palace twice to meet Queen He, Queen He also loved Cai Yan very much, ordered the palace to make sixteen sets of clothes for Cai Yan, and gave a lot of precious jewelry.

Therefore, Lu Zhi and others felt that since Cai Yan was so favored by Shi Hou and Empress He, they entrusted Xu Yan to meet and see Cai Yan's current situation, so that Cai Yong could give an explanation, and there should be no problem, so they entrusted Xu Yan to come.

It's just that I didn't expect Liu Wei to ask this casually.

"Ugh. ”

Xu Yan settled down and explained: "Miss Cai just entered the palace yesterday, and the journey was tiring, so the ministers and adults didn't want to bother. ”

"Huh. ”

Liu Wei chuckled, didn't break it, and turned his head to look at Cai Yan.

Of course, Cai Yan also heard Xu Yan's intention, she didn't think as much as Liu Bian, and when Liu Bian turned her head to look at her, she had already got up and stepped forward, saluted and thanked: "Concubine Cai Yan, thank you Xu Neishou for remembering ...... with all the adults."

"Do you want to talk about it alone?" asked Liu Wei generously.

Cai Yan was a little surprised by Liu Bian's elegance and politeness at the moment, and nodded slightly after a little hesitation, so Liu Bian turned around and left the hall facing the east.

This made Xu Yan very surprised, and after Liu Wei left, he smiled at Cai Yan with a bit of temptation: "I didn't expect Shi Hou to love Miss Cai so much......

Cai Yan's cheeks were slightly red when she heard this, but she had to admit that although he bullied him and teased her, he was really fond of her, and he didn't care about the prince's respect to coax her, obviously just a ten-year-old kid......

After settling down, she asked Xu Yan softly, "Did Lu Shangshu receive a letter from his father?"

"Hmm. ”

Xu Yan nodded and said, "According to Lu Shangshu, Cai Langzhong is very worried about Miss Cai, but at present, it seems that there is no need to worry?"

Cai Yan's face turned slightly red again, and he immediately saluted: "Please express your gratitude to Lu Shangshu on behalf of the concubine, everything is fine in the palace, and Shi Hou and the queen mother also treat me very well...... On my father's side, I will write a letter to my family in the near future, and entrust Shi Hou to send someone to my father, so that he can rest assured. ”

Xu Yan nodded when he heard this: "Since this is the case, then I will leave first." ”

As he spoke, he seemed to think of something, and whispered to Cai Yan: "If Miss Cai entrusts Shi Hou to deliver the family letter on her behalf, most of them will pass through the hands of the palace attendants, who have grievances with Ling Zun in the past, so if it is not necessary, do not mention matters related to the affairs of the DPRK and China in the letter......

Cai Yan's heart sank, and he thanked again: "Thank you Xu Neishou for reminding me." ”

Xu Yan smiled and saluted and said goodbye.

Looking at the back of Xu Yan leaving, Cai Yan also thought that he should write a letter to his father, but there was no pen and ink in the Xifang Palace.

So she came to the east hall, and immediately saw Liu Wei standing at the desk writing.

This was the first time she had seen Liu Wei write, she stepped forward to take a look curiously, but saw that Liu Wei wrote her name, which made her feel a different kind of affection.

"Finished?"

Liu Wei glanced up and asked casually, "See how I write?"

"Well, that's it. ”

Cai Yan responded, and immediately looked at the calligraphy on the paper, with a funny look on his face: "Does Shi Hou want to hear the truth or lie?"

Liu Wei glanced up at Cai Yan, and his face showed a little interest: "How do you say a lie?"

Cai Yan snorted lightly: "The lie is that Shi Hou's words are written very well, there is no one before or after, even if everyone in the world is famous, it is far inferior." As for the truth......"

"Stop. Liu Wei interrupted in time: "I suddenly don't want to hear the truth." ”

“......”

Cai Yan was stunned, and then realized that he was being tricked by Liu Wei again, and he was so angry that he secretly gritted his teeth.

Thinking about it, she didn't realize that her state of mind at this moment was similar to the panicked appearance when she first entered the palace yesterday.

It is no wonder that a little eunuch who was grinding for Liu Wei next to him showed a look of surprise, Xu was surprised that this Cai girl, who had only arrived in the palace yesterday, dared to speak to Shi Hou like this.

What surprised him even more was that Shi Hou was not angry.

After some bickering, Cai Yan said her intention: "I want to write a letter to inform my father, so that he can rest assured." ”

"Come on. ”

Liu Wei gave up his seat to Cai Yan, and even laid out new paper for her.

I don't know if Cai Yan noticed this, she pondered for a moment, and wrote on the paper with a pen.

I have to say that Cai Yan, as Cai Yong's daughter, although her handwriting is not as good as that of her father, Shi Yiguan and other calligraphers, but it is much stronger than Liu Wei, who has not studied for a few days, and even Liu Wei did not hesitate to praise: "Good words!"

Cai Yan blinked, and suddenly asked, "How does it compare to Shi Hou?"

Liu Wei was not angry, and replied in her previous words: "Does Wen Ji want to hear the truth or a lie?"

As soon as she heard this, Cai Yan knew that this guy was going to tease her again, she thought for a while and said, "How do you say a lie?"

I saw Liu Wei showing disgust, shook his head and said, "Ugly, too ugly, far inferior to me." ”

Cai Yan was a little surprised, and asked again, "What about the truth?"

At this time, he saw Liu Wei sly smiling: "The truth is ...... It's really not as good as me. ”

“......”

Cai Yan's little face tensed angrily.

After that, it was another flirtatious and scolding bickering in the eyes of outsiders, I am afraid that even Cai Yan himself was not conscious, but the little eunuch next to him could see it clearly.

After putting his father in the letter box, Cai Yan said to Liu Wei with pleading: "Shi Hou, if it is not troublesome, I would like to go to Dongguan to meet Lu Shangshu and other elders, and thank them for specially entrusting Xu Nei to visit me, and by the way, ask them to deliver the letter on my behalf." ”

Liu Wei naturally would not refuse this trivial matter, so he took the opportunity to take Cai Yan's little hand and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for?"

However, just as the two were about to leave for Dongguan, the little eunuch who had been grinding before stood in front of Liu Wei and said respectfully: "Shi Hou should not go to Dongguan. ”

"Why?"

"This ......" the little official eunuch hesitated, and said to him left and right: "It's just not good......"

"......" Liu Wei's face gradually sank.

How could he not understand the other party's appearance?

I think it was his love and tolerance for Cai Yan that made some guys have a misunderstanding of 'bullying'.

"Get out of the way!"

He said coldly.

The indifferent tone made Cai Yan and the little eunuch stunned.