Guyin, Midtown.

With the establishment and implementation of the six-ministry system of the three provinces, the inside and outside of the Four Seasons Palace have recently been expanded, and several supporting official temples have been built.

There are four main seats.

There are two buildings in the palace, one is the Inner History Province (Zhongshu Province) built on the basis of the official offices of the former Kingdom Scribe Orders and other officials, and the other is the Huangmen Province (Menxia Province) built on the basis of the official offices of the former Kingdom Officials and other officials.

There are two near the palace, one is the "Zhongtai" transformed from the original Longzhou Pastoral Mansion, that is, the "Shangshu Province" in the "Three Provinces", and the other is a new place for Xin Er's new governance office.

There are three main officials and lords of Xin Er: Lu Zhongtai (Shangshu) Affairs, General Zheng, and Marquis of Jiankang.

The Marquis of Jiankang does not say, the lord is the lord, the official is the official, the title is expensive, he is not in power, and he does not need a special office space. The general has a special office space, that is, the auxiliary general's mansion in the early days, and now the general's mansion, but the general's mansion, as the name suggests, is used to deal with military affairs, so the post of "recording Zhongtai affairs" is a place where there is a need for other governance.

-- The reason why it was built on the edge of the central station is that the "record of the affairs of the central station" is that the central station is in this stall, and the two official offices are closer to each other, which is not only convenient for the officials of the central station to ask for instructions and report to Xiner, but also convenient for Xiner to summon the officials of the central and Taiwan stations to inquire about the political situation at any time.

This official mansion has just been built, and it is said that it has a name, but because of Xin'er's current "monstrous power", the people of Guyin do not call it by name, but call it "Xin Gongfu". A few days ago, Xin Er moved in with a large number of subordinates and attachés.

Because of the proximity to the middle platform, standing on the pavilion of the middle platform, you can see some scenes outside and inside, and even hear the sound over there.

On this day in early June, under the scorching summer day, Zhongtai Ling Koji Shuang sweated like rain, climbed the steps, and climbed the attic behind the Zhongtai Hearing Hall with a familiar car, holding on to the railing of vermilion lacquer, he picked up his toes, and looked hard at the so-called "Xin Gongfu" in the east.

At a glance, outside the tall Huan table in front of the Xin Gongfu, on the straight stone roadway, like a long dragon, there are dozens or hundreds of various vehicles lined up, there are simple chariots, elegant ox carts, and formal official cars of Duansu, which are mixed with various means of travel such as horses and shoulders, in short, varied, diverse. On the carriage, horses, shoulders, or beside them, against the sun, bathed in the hot wind, full of people, some wearing red official uniforms that should be worn in summer, some wearing scarves and scarves, or some of them are more celebrity, probably not tolerant of the heat, simply take off their coats, bare-chested, and shake endlessly with a fan.

These people and others are all officials of various official offices who are waiting for Xin Er to meet and report to Xin Er and ask for instructions on government affairs.

Everyone is an official in Guyin, looking up and not looking down, most of them know each other, and the children of the family, some of them are friends with each other, waiting to enter the house, nothing to do, indispensable, you say, I talk about some gossip, even if they all lower their voices, gather together, but it is also a big sound, transmitted to the ears of the middle and pavilion.

Looking at this lively scene and listening to the noisy sound, Koji Shuang turned around and looked at his own house.

Zhongtai is the former pastoral mansion, covering a wide area, much larger than the Xin Gong Mansion, but at this moment, the door outside the house can be crowded, and the huge mansion is also deserted.

After Xin Er was appointed as the Central Taiwan Order, under the joint recommendation of Sun Yan, Yang Chao, Huang Rong, Zhang Hun, Chen Sun, etc., when he took up the post of "Recording Central Taiwan Affairs", one of his subordinates persuaded him to simply resign from the Central Taiwan Order, so as not to be restricted by Xin Er's words, and resurfaced at this time, Lu Shuang's hands full of sweat, subconsciously clenched the railing, and sighed regretfully.

A person behind him asked, "Ming Gong, why are you sighing for no reason?" ”

This person is more than Chinese New Year's Eve, handsome, but his head is big, and his whole body can't look slightly uncoordinated, it is none other than Wei Tai, Lu Shuang's henchman. Wei Tai and Koji Shuang is a fellow countryman, his home is also in Xiping, he has been following Koji Shuang for more than ten years, the first entry is should be Koji Shuang's opening, before joining the army under Koji Shuang's account, Tian Ju was promoted to Tang Xing Taishou, he succeeded to the post of Changshi, the current Duguanlang, is the head of the Zhongtai Criminal Department of the lawsuit. - The Metropolitan Officer, one of the four divisions of the Criminal Department, was responsible for managing the records of captives and slaves, providing food, clothing, and medicine, and hearing their lawsuits. In other words, the capital lawsuit is mainly in charge of the prison related to the prisoners.

Koji Shuang didn't answer honestly, wiped the sweat on his forehead, looked at him left and right, and said, "It's too hot." ”

Wei Tai wondered: "It's hot, and it's not enough to sigh." ”

Koji Shuang knew that he had an upright personality, and he didn't blame him for asking the bottom of it, but he was not happy that he would ask again, so in order to distract him, he loosened the railing, wiped Wei Tai's clothes twice, wiped off the sweat on his hands, and said, "...... It's so hot! You see, how much sweat is out! ”

Wei Tai flexed his fingers, flicked the sweat stains left on his clothes, and said: "Originally, on such a hot day, this pavilion is high, and it is getting hotter and hotter, and I don't know why Ming Gong ran here twice in three days." Ming Gong, then let's go back to the hall, shall we? Ming Gong changed his clothes, and I asked the government officials to hold more ice cubes for Ming Gong to go to the heat. ”

Koji Shuang responded: "Okay." ”

He reluctantly glanced at the grand scene of Duke Xin's Mansion with envy, and said in his heart, "My mansion is so cold, but Xin Agua is so noisy!" What is my face? The heir suggested that I resign from the Zhongtai Order, so as not to make my name under Xin Agua, but now it seems that it is a good word! Shall I disagree with him? Is it too late to resign now? …… Alas, the Central Taiwan Order, the position of a dignitary, if I just resign? It's a pity! ”

The heir, named Pei Yi, is another confidant of Lu Shuang, and the proposal to resign from the Zhongtai Order was made by this person.

To resign or not to resign, I can't make up my mind, Lu Shuang wants to ask Wei Tai's opinion, but when the words come to his mouth, he feels that "he is not as good as a melon" is too embarrassing, and on the day that Ling Huyan scolded him, Wei Tai was in his home, but he saw it with his own eyes, heard it with his own ears, and the two were together, and he couldn't hold his face, and he couldn't ask after all.

A commotion came from outside the Xin Mansion.

Lu Shuang looked around and saw that it was a black ox cart with a curtain, swaggering past many queuing vehicles, horses, and shoulders along the side of the stone road in front of Duke Xin's mansion, and went straight to the house. It was probably the act of cutting into the queue of this ox cart that caused the dissatisfaction of the waiting officials, so many people shouted in a disorderly manner, and the noise came from this.

Lu Shuang's spirits perked up, he paused to prepare to go downstairs, watched the follow-up with interest, and waited to see the doorman of the Xin Mansion, the subordinate who had sent him to inform Xin Er of a certain official business a few days ago blocked the outside of the mansion, and asked him to line up to enter the mansion in order, how to deal with this matter.

But before Wei Xian could come forward, the curtain on the ox cart was lifted, and the people in the cart showed their heads outward, and the shouting quickly subsided. Lu Shuang was bored, disappointed, called Wei Tai's word, and couldn't help but say: "What a gentle and elegant master!" Yuan An, look at what he has become now! Arrogant! The ancients were honest and did not deceive me, they were really close to Zhu! ”

After speaking, he waved his sleeves and went downstairs.

Wei Tai hurriedly caught up.

But the person in the car, when he showed his face, Lu Shuang could see it clearly, and it was clearly Fu Qiao.

Fu Qiao is now the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Zhongtai, in terms of power, second only to the governors of the three provinces and a few other people, a high position, and he is a close confidant of Xiner, he came to cut in line, other officials have nothing to say, even if they are dissatisfied, no one dares to argue with him, so as soon as he shows his face, the shouting will be calmed.

It's just that Koji Shuang accused him of being "arrogant and domineering", which was really wrong.

The reason why Fu Qiao cut the queue was not because he was proud of his preciousness, nor because he was proud of his cronies, but because there was a major life event that was the most important for him and needed to be urgently confirmed with Xin Er, so he lost his usual elegant bearing.

The ox cart stopped outside the gate of the mansion, Fu Qiao got out of the car, nodded to Wei Xian, who saluted him, and hurriedly entered the mansion. After passing the shadow wall and along the bluestone road, if there were too many people in the house, he would almost have to trot, and finally arrived at the main hall.

In the hall, Xin Er was talking to two officials, and suddenly saw Fu Qiao come in, stopped talking, and said with a smile: "Fu Shangshu is here?" ”

The two officials, Fu Qiao knew, both had just been promoted from the locality, one was from Jiankang County, and was Xin Er's old official Lu Jing, who was too punctual in Jiankang, and now serves in Huangmen Province; One is from Dunhuang County, whose family is a scholar and also serves in Huangmen Province.

Huangmen Province is the sovereign's attendant body, and the two of them probably represent the Zuo clan and Ling Hule to convey to Xin Er the Zuo clan's opinions on a certain government affairs or a new policy that is planned to be implemented,—— and the new officials take office three fires, not to mention a new system? Since the implementation of the three-province six-ministry system, although Xiner has not yet launched a major new policy due to the short time, there are already several major new policies that are in a state of near-mature discussion and are about to be launched. Zuo's military and political affairs for several years, the country's military and political affairs, has gradually grown from ignorant to sometimes has personal opinions, for these new policies to be implemented, she does not understand or has a unique view, at this moment, it is indispensable to summon Xin Er into the palace to inquire, or send officials from Huangmen Province to discuss with Xin Er. Fu Qiao knows this.

Fu Qiaoqiang pressed his eagerness and said, "Is Ming Gong busy?" That Ming Gong is busy first, I'll come back later. As he spoke, he saluted the koji sutra who stood up and saluted the official from Dunhuang, and was about to leave the hall.

Xin Er said: "Regarding the establishment of the military government, the Queen Mother has a question, and I have answered it. The two of them will leave immediately, you don't have to go out. ”

Koji Jing and the officials of the Dunhuang nationality bowed and said goodbye.

Fu Qiao stood by the door, waiting for the two of them to go out, although he was anxious, he still held his temperament, and after seeing them go away, he quickly walked to the hall, came to Xin Er's desk, looked at Xin Er, his hands were clenched into fists, his lips trembled, and he changed the honorific title of Ming Gong, and was close to Youzhu, and asked: "Youzhu, was I last night, was it ......, what did Ying Cheng beg for?" ”

Xin Er was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Did you promise it, you don't remember it yourself?" ”

"I drank too much last night! Drunk! ”

"Old man, you are clear about Tang Hu's marriage, this is Jing Huan's proposal a few days ago. Jing Huan's proposal, I think it's good. We live in the Tang Dynasty in the West, Xianbei, Qiang, Xiongnu, Zahu and other various Hu people, there are many Hu people in various departments, and the customs and language of the Hu people are different from our Tang people. Thinking about that, Qu Yuanguang, how kind and righteous do I treat his family? He has betrayed me! To solve this problem, marriage is indeed a solution.

"Only the Gaomen Clan, you are also clear, not to mention the Hu people, even the same Tang people, they will never marry the second-rate scholars, at this time, we need to be like you, I Dingxi celebrities, brave to take responsibility, come out to set an example for the scholars!"

The more Fu Qiao listened, the paler his face became, his voice trembled, and he said, "Young book, I know all this, don't say it anymore." You only told me, I didn't last night? ”

Xin Er said: "It's not just you! Didn't I, last night, promise Bo Ye that I will accept one of his sisters in the near future? ”

Xin Er didn't answer Fu Qiao's question directly, but she was waiting to answer him.

Fu Qiao said miserably: "Young book, Bo Ye's sister, can she be similar to the wife and sister of the beggar?" Although I have never seen Bo Ye's sister, but Bo Ye is handsome and dignified, and it is expected that his sister must also be good-looking, begging for a strong wife, young, you and I have seen it! His sister is like this, his sister is ......, young, I, I, I was really drunk last night! Can I take back what I said last night? ”

Xin Er said in embarrassment: "Old Master, at the banquet last night, when you promised to be vigorous, Shidao, Yizhen, Qianli, Jinghuan and others were all there, and Bo Ye was also there, in front of so many people, how could you take back the promise you made?" And it's not difficult to take it back, in a word, but if you think that your wife and sister are ugly and go back on your word, it will inevitably hurt his self-esteem with his wife and sister-in-law. ”

But a few days ago, in response to Xin Er's hope that Tang Hu's family would turn Hu into Tang's long-term political goal, Huang Rong proposed a marriage strategy, and begging Dali's wife and sister happened to be newly widowed, so he moved his mind and wanted to take advantage of this east wind to find a Tang Shi for his wife and sister, but several people in his phase refused him, and he confided this distress to everyone at the private banquet set up by Xin Er last night, Fu Qiao was drunk at that time, after all, he and Qi Dali are old acquaintances, the two met on the bank of Pig Yeze, and it is also Fu Qiao's friend in distress, he is hot-blooded, Righteous and angry, he actually volunteered, patted his chest and promised to beg for a strong force, saying that he was willing to accept his wife and sister into the house.

People drink too much, what they say, what they do, they usually forget when they wake up the next day, it was a slave of the Fu family who followed Fu Qiao to the banquet last night, and today after Fu Qiao woke up, he told him about it.

When Fu Qiao heard this, he was shocked, so he hurriedly ran to find Xin Er to determine the truth of this matter.

The wife of the beggar is not only black and fat, but the most memorable thing for Fu Qiao is that she also has a thick black beard on her lips, just like a man's beard. His sister is like this, as Fu Qiao said, her sister can be imagined.

Fu Qiao took a few steps back, sat down on the couch on the side, and said, "Childish, doesn't this matter have to be changed?" ”

Xin Er shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't change it." Seeing Fu Qiao's depressed appearance, he comforted him and said, "Old Fu, you haven't seen Dali's wife and sister, I have seen it, the body shape, the body shape is ......, the body shape is round, and it is the image of Yizi." If you put her in the door, she might be able to give you another big fat boy! There are many sons and daughters, what a blessing, why are you so upset? ”

Fu Qiao muttered, "I have a son and a daughter, which is enough. Many sons and many daughters? I'm too old to bear it! ”

Xin Er smiled and said: "Old man, vigorously opened a shop in Guyin City, specializing in cistanche. ”

Fu Qiao couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Young! ”

A person outside the hall came in, Xin Er and Fu Qiao looked and saw that it was Tang Ai, the military department of the Central Taiwan Military Department.

"Ming Gong, Zhang Shao sent a military report."