Liu Bei turned around and saw a very young Zhongchang attendant, kneeling and saluting. Unlike the crowd. He did not wear a mask, but showed his true face.

Liu Bei suddenly remembered. This person is the official who stood beside the Empress Dowager Dong on the day of the third queen's trip.

There was no one else in the box, and Cao Jie also took off his mask: "This person's name is Duan Jue, and he is a servant of Changle." ”

The Empress Dowager's Changle Palace (Yongle Palace), imitating the court halls, has officials such as Changle Weiwei, Changle Taifu, Changle Shaofu, Changle Sima and Changle household generals. Changle Taifu and Changle Weiwei, Changle Shaofu, the general name of the Queen Mother Sanqing.

Cao Jie is the Great Changqiu, and he is the head of the queen's officials. Duan Qi is the servant of Changle and the head of the Queen Mother's Three Secretaries. Bi Lan, who led the way, was in the court order. They are all big officials with real power in the palace! Although I don't know who else is involved here, the three of them appeared together, which can be seen!

"The slave and maid pay a visit to the prince." Sure enough, the ceremony cannot be abolished.

"Ouchi Official, please." Liu Bei helped him up with a pleasant face.

Duan Jue knelt beside Cao Jie and said with a smile: "As the prince said, the reason why Taicang can have today's atmosphere is due to the Qin Palace of the former Taicang Order. And the reason why Qin Gong has such courage is because it was instructed by the former general Liang Ji. ”

No surprises.

Seeing Liu Bei nodding slowly, Duan Jue asked again: "Can the prince know about the friendship period, and what is his business?" ”

"Could it be the concubine of Emperor Shun in Liang Ji's garden?" How could Liu Bei not know. The golden mountain of the garden is full of doubts. Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others searched for clues but could not. How deep the memories are.

"Yes, yes." Duan Jue nodded happily: "Back then, Liang Ji's father, Liang Shang, was a general, and he offered his beautiful girlfriend and Concubine Shun. Later, the friend was abolished from the palace due to mistakes. Liang Shang didn't dare to stay, so he married her. Liang Ji coveted the beauty of his friendship and sent a dead man to take him back and get along with him. and begat a son. ”

This matter, as Yuan Shao and others told Liu Bei.

Duan Qi also said: "The general Liang Ji has a friendship period, so he lives with himself: Sun Shou, the wife of the family, is also a rare beauty in Luoyang City, why does he favor the friendship period? Even during the friendship period, his appearance was completely cut off by Sun Shou, and he never gave up and loved him deeply? ”

"Why?" Liu Bei thought that the two were true love.

"The general once said to the Qin Palace: 'It is because of the friendship period that she was the imperial concubine!' Duan Jue smiled: "What the emperor likes, it will become fashionable." The world is racing to imitate. Your Majesty is a good donkey cart today. Even donkeys are the same as horses. Therefore, the imperial concubine who served Emperor Shun was deeply loved by the general Liang Ji. ”

In a word: the pursuit of the dangerous stimulus brought by transgression, and the thrill of counterattack beyond the ethics of the Gangchang.

As soon as he thought of sleeping with the emperor's woman, the general Liang Ji couldn't stop the majestic wind and was hearty.

Duan Jue said, "So. The general Liang Ji ordered the slave Qin Palace, and secretly built the Taicang Canglou into the 'gold cave' in the mouth of the prince. For those who are willing to be a pro-imperial concubine Fangze, and spend a lot of money on the guests overnight. A place where long-cherished wishes are fulfilled. ”

Liu Bei understood: "Could it be that the women here are all imperial concubines who have been punished out of the palace?" ”

Seeing Duan Qi cover his mouth and smile. Cao Jie smiled and asked: "Does the prince know the 'nobles of the garden'?" ”

Liu Bei shook his head: "I don't know." ”

Originally.

Nowadays, the nobles of the gardens have two meanings.

It was meant to be a noble person who lived in the palace of each garden, a queen, and a gold seal and purple ribbon. "Leaving the palace" refers to the palace outside the main palace for the emperor to live in when he goes out on patrol. Most of the palaces were built in the royal gardens outside the city. Therefore, it is collectively called "each garden leaving the palace".

It was later combined with the funeral system. The first emperor collapsed, and Qin II ordered the harem to be buried by the 'non-childless', and there were many dead. In the Han Dynasty, the funeral system was abolished. The new emperor often makes the childless people in the harem guard the tomb for the first emperor, and these palace maids are the nobles of the garden.

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Emperor of the Emperor": "Bestow on the nobles of the garden". Note Yun: "It is said that the palace people have no children and guard the cemetery." "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Queen's Chronicle": "and the (Ming) Emperor collapsed...... The nobles should migrate to the South Palace, the Queen Mother felt goodbye, and gave the king a red ribbon, a car and a horse, three thousand white ends, three thousand miscellaneous silks, and ten catties of gold. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Queen": "After the burial of the emperor, the palace people returned to the garden, and then gave Zhou and Feng nobles. …… (the first year of Yanguang) and edict to the nobles of the garden, the palace people have the same clan if the old man does not serve as a messenger, so that the garden supervisor is really on the name, from the imperial north palace to increase the joy to watch and read it, let it go and stay, the same day exempted five or six hundred people. ”

The so-called "palace people have no children" have three sources: they have never been fortunate by the emperor, they have never been fortunate but they are not pregnant, and they have given birth but the child unfortunately died. In addition, some women fall out of favor in the harem, or fail to compete for favor, and may also be sent to guard the tomb of the first emperor.

Mentioned earlier. Seeking to guard the tomb of Emperor Cheng, Ban Jieyu for the rest of her life, her identity is "the noble person of the garden".

"In my dynasty, there were women who were released from the palace from time to time, as in the friendship period. However, more women were picked, but they could only wait for the emperor to collapse, and were sent by the new emperor to guard the tomb of the first emperor and become a nobleman in the garden. Cao Jie sighed: "Among the nobles in the garden, there is no shortage of favorite concubines. Only because he never gave birth to bone and blood, or died of bone and blood, he was classified as the tomb of the first emperor. The prince can know that the first emperor (Emperor Huan) concubines and palace maids have as many as five or six thousand people......"

Got it.

"Most of the women here are the nobles of the gardens who guarded the tombs of the previous emperors." Liu Bei also sighed.

Cao nodded and said, "Just as the prince said." This place is called 'Zheguikan'. ”

There is a way to win the toad palace.

Toad Palace, also known as Moon Palace. It is commonly known as Guanghan Palace. It is where Chang'e lived after running to the moon. 'Zhegui' not only refers to the moon palace folding flowers, but also through 'folding expensive'. Folding flowers 'garden nobles' also.

It will be located on the top of Taicang, ethereal into the clouds, the nobles of the garden, the gold cave with a smile, named after it, obviously has a different meaning.

Taicang folds laurels. It is the supreme privacy that spreads among the nobles and wealthy businessmen. This place, if it is not the top magnates, it is not known at all. It's a fluke that I heard that if there is no recommendation from a big internal official, it can be said that there is no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth.

In a word, he must be a very good minister to be able to ascend to Taicang and win the laurels.

"Don't you think that we are forcing good people to be prostitutes, and we will do evil things? No, Miao also. Seeing that Liu Bei was speechless for a while, Cao Jie defended again: "The prince and the marquis can know that countless 'nobles from the garden' have even scattered their surplus wealth, and only seek to enter this 'Zhegui Palace'. A taste of joy, a touch of popularity? ”

Duan Jue continued: "The prince can also know that the more favored concubines of the first emperor, the higher the value. Those who give birth to a prince and die young, a daughter smiles and cannot be obtained. On the contrary, it is the Qing court people who have never been lucky, and they are the least worthy. You can only serve tea and pour water, and dance and music will help the fun. No one cares about it. ”

Obviously, they are all here to sleep with the imperial concubine.

Cao Jie sighed: "Accustomed to the bustling and lively of people before and after, how can you endure the coldness of the cemetery?" ”

Or as the officials put it.

This matter must be your willingness. Otherwise, how could they be so close to the forbidden middle and yet have nothing to do with each other?

But if there is a nobleman in the gardens who is forced to become a prostitute, he fights for his life, complains with blood and tears, or arson in anger. This 'Zhegui Pavilion' will be revealed to the world. Referred to by a thousand people. At that time, no matter who is behind the 'Zhegui Pavilion', it will inevitably be His Majesty's thunderous wrath.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei sighed: "Such a secret matter, all the big officials, why do you want to tell Liu Bei?" ”

Cao Jie bowed to the ground and saluted: "The prince and the old slave have the grace to continue their lives." The things entrusted to this place are inextricably linked. The old slave is brave, so he invites the prince to come and take a look. ”

Finally got to the point.

Liu Bei hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him: "Dare to ask the boss, what do the seven young ladies of my family have to do with this place?" ”