With Huang Mengyu, the admiral of Dongchang, it will definitely not be a problem to enter the city, but if you just enter the city and make a name for yourself as a highly pragmatic person, you can do it, and the real trouble at the moment is to enter the palace.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, after the closure of the palace, it was difficult for even the emperor to leave the palace, that is, the head of the secret service like Huang Mengyu was able to enter and exit freely, but unless he dared to look at his head as a night pot, he would never dare to bring a foreign minister like Gao Pragmatic into the palace.

When you enter the palace in the middle of the night, you can't go through the noon gate due south, because after the noon gate is the Jinshui Bridge, the Jinshui Bridge is facing the Huangji Gate, and behind the Huangji Gate is the Huangji Palace, which symbolizes the imperial power. [These two places in the early Ming Dynasty with the name of "Fengtian", that is, Fengtianmen, Fengtian Palace, Jiajing later renamed "Huangji", for the Huangji Gate, Huangji Palace, the Shunzhi period of the Tatar Qing Dynasty were renamed "Taihe", that is, Taihemen, Taihe Palace. ]

And in the same way, the Xuanwu Gate in the north can't be walked - from here as soon as you enter the door is the harem, in the middle of the night, what do you want to do when you break into the harem at night?

Xihua Gate can theoretically be walked, but there is the Taiye Pool, which is the so-called Sanhai, and you can't enter it at night.

Therefore, there is only one feasible passage to enter the palace, which is the Donghua Gate in the southeast of the palace.

Because the capital division of the Ming Dynasty has three layers inside and outside, Gao Shishi's route tonight actually has to enter three gates: first enter the city from Desheng Gate, go all the way to the southeast, rely on Huang Mengyu's face to enter the imperial city from Dong'an Gate, and then continue to the west, and enter Donghua Gate, which is considered to have entered the palace city.

Deshengmen is the simplest, and the defenders who rotate here are the most lively, for a character like Gao Pragmatic, he will never admit his mistake, not to mention that no one dares to pretend to be the family team of Gaofu in Beijing, so it is not difficult to enter the city.

Gao pragmatic chose to ride a horse, Huang Mengyu had no choice but to abandon the sedan chair and ride a horse like him. In addition, when Gao Pragmatic sent someone to call the door, he said that "there is something important to play the saint urgently", then there is no last bit of trouble - even if the imperial historians want to find trouble, they can only find Gao Shizhong, he is only a thousand generals, and it is estimated that he does not deserve to be mentioned.

Enter the Desheng Gate all the way to the southeast, turn left to the Drum Tower, then go forward to the Kaiyuan Temple and turn right, then all the way to the south, pass the Yulin right guard and then turn right to the Dong'an Gate.

Although Huang Mengyu didn't dare to take Gao Pragmatic into the palace city, it was still possible to enter the imperial city, he put on the prestige of the chief eunuch and the governor of Dongchang, and he didn't even give a reason, so he directly brought Gao Pragmatic and his party in.

After entering Dong'anmen, Huang Mengyu became much more cautious, and even said to Gao pragmatically with some concern: "Waiter, now it's not as good as it was back then, it's not easy for you to enter the palace in the middle of the night......

Of course, Gao Pragmatism knows that it is not easy, although theoretically speaking, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have the ability to bring him into the palace, but it is a suicidal move for the two of them, and Gao Pragmatism cannot ask for this.

So Gao pragmatic only asked: "Lao Huang, who is more convenient to see the emperor, you or Lao Chen?" I mean, at a time like this. ”

Huang Mengyu said: "You can see it, but after all, Lao Chen has been an errand boy by the emperor's side for many years, and it will be more convenient for him to meet than our family." ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, and asked again: "Then it should be quite convenient for you to go to Ciqing Palace to see the Empress Dowager Rensheng, right?" ”

Long before Gao Pragmatic overthrew Feng Bao, he arranged for Huang Mengyu to defect to the Empress Dowager Chen, and now Huang Mengyu is in the harem, and he is also nominally a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Chen, so of course he has no problem going to Ciqing Palace to find the Empress Dowager Chen.

The only question is, what to do with Empress Dowager Chen?

Although Empress Dowager Chen's status is high, because she is not the emperor's biological mother, she rarely asks about court affairs, and even in the affairs of the harem, she rarely interferes.

But what Gao pragmatic wants is her status.

Empress Dowager Chen, Empress Dowager Li, a Empress Dowager of Rensheng, and a Empress Dowager of Cisheng, because of Gao Shishi's suggestion back then, Gao Gong pushed the two of them to "two palaces and respect", which is theoretically equal.

However, no matter what, before the "two palaces are respected", Empress Dowager Chen was Empress Chen, and Empress Dowager Li was only Concubine Li, and there was a clear difference in status.

If you put it in the folk analogy, only the Empress Dowager Chen is the rightful room!

And Empress Dowager Li's current status actually comes from Zhu Yijun, the emperor's son.

Therefore, since we want to overturn the decision of the Empress Dowager Li tonight, there is only one person in the whole Ming Dynasty who has this title and status, and that is the Empress Dowager Chen.

In addition to her, even Zhu Yijun, the emperor, is not easy to speak - after all, he governs the country with filial piety, and his son is not stubborn in front of his mother. It's like a young and successful son like Gao Shishi, who can only talk about Huang Zhiting in front of his mother Zhang, mainly by persuasion, and in some dramas, running away from home and standing on his own feet or something is completely child's play, which can only become a stain on life.

As soon as Gao Pragmatic mentioned Empress Dowager Chen, Huang Mengyu heard the song and knew the elegance, nodded and said: "Don't worry, our family understands, it's just ...... I don't know what the waiter wants our family to say to Empress Dowager Chen? ”

Gao pragmatic listened to the past and said "so and so", Huang Mengyu nodded again and again.

Then Gao pragmatic said: "In addition, you send someone to inform Lao Chen in the palace, and let him go and talk to the emperor, just say that I have an urgent matter to face the saint." ”

Although Huang Mengyu was stunned for a moment, he immediately agreed.

Generally speaking, there are very few courtiers who regard the palace ban system as nothing, and come to see the emperor in the middle of the night, even if they are cabinet elders, unless there is a huge crisis in the country, they will not face the saint overnight, on the one hand, it is inconvenient and violated, and on the other hand, it is also because the emperor does not necessarily agree.

Gao Pragmatic didn't worry much about Zhu Yijun's refusal to see him, he felt that this possibility basically didn't exist, the only trouble was the problem of violation, the old Zhu family's palace ban system was quite strict, he was pragmatic because he was young, and Emperor Longqing had a special care for his nephew with a high arch, but now it's different, today he is all right.

He explained to Huang Mengyu how to pass on the message to Chen Ju, and Huang Mengyu was relieved after hearing it.

Although entering the palace itself is against the rules, according to the highly pragmatic handling method, the trouble can always be controlled to a minimum, presumably after the princess case breaks out, the controversy of the court officials will also be transferred, and the firepower is unlikely to come towards them.

Outside the Donghua Gate, Huang Mengyu himself took a few entourage eunuchs into the palace, leaving Gao Pragmatic and more than a dozen family members to wait outside, after a while, the Donghua Gate actually opened, Gao Pragmatic was a little stunned, but saw the guards inside commanding the guards to run out with a Taishi chair, nodded and said: "Gao Shizhong, you always forgive me, we dare not violate the imperial court system...... But we don't dare to look at you standing outside the door, please sit, please. ”

The night was too dark, and it wasn't until he opened his mouth to speak that Gao Shishi noticed that the guards of Donghua Gate today were in charge of the Jing Army.

The net army is under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the top boss is Chen Ju, no wonder he is so stammered.

Gao Shishi's expression was also slightly relaxed, and he nodded: "Okay, you have rules for doing things, and you can be flexible, not bad, not bad, you can be free another day, this official will mention it in front of Chen Yuma, go." ”

The guard couldn't help but be overjoyed, thanked again and again, but didn't dare to bother more, and when he saw Gao Shishi sitting down by the moat bridge, he nodded and went back.

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