Guo Hong changed into Taoist clothes and came out of Shifu, and it was already dark.

Chang'an City was very lively because it was close to the emperor's birthday, and there were still many people on the road at night curfew, and Jin Wuwei also turned a blind eye.

He returned to Shengpingfang, the gate was closed, so he walked towards the gate of Liufu.

There are people coming and going on the street, and it is definitely not okay to climb the wall in public.

I paid the money to the gatekeeper of Liufu, and walked along the alleyway with other neighbors who returned late, and when I was about to reach the side door, I suddenly heard a loud noise in the house.

"Catch him!" A man dressed as a young eunuch rushed out of the corner door of the alleyway, and several more people chased out from behind.

The young eunuch's eyes were red, and he waved a steel knife in his hand, shouting, "Death to those who stand in my way!" ”

"He pushed Xiao Langjun into the water, stop him!" The man who chased after him shouted.

But the neighbors in the alley were bare-handed, and they didn't dare to sacrifice their lives to intercept them.

Seeing that he was about to rush out of the side door, Guo Hong raised his foot and stumbled, and the man fell forward and slammed his head against the wall and fainted, and was tied up by the swarming people.

Guo Hong just wanted to leave, but the person who caught up stopped him and said, "Thank you for this refiner for helping to catch this thief, my master will definitely thank you in person." ”

Remembering that the lord of this mansion was Liu Zhongying, Guo Hong was also interested, so he followed them into the inner courtyard.

While walking inside, Guo Hong inquired about the matter, and the old servant at the head said with a smile: "This matter is not a secret, but please ask the refiner to go out and not spread the word." Five years ago, the saint went to Hebei to avoid trouble, so he kept him incognito in the house, but later after the saint ascended the throne, there was a villain slander, saying that the birthday of the saint was with the saint, so when he was not around, the saint was smooth sailing, so he stayed. In the past few days, the saint is approaching his fortieth birthday, and Liu Jieyu, the biological mother of Xiao Langjun, is ready to take him into the palace, and the little envoy who doesn't want to come to the summons actually poisoned him and wanted to kill him, thanks to the refiner's righteous help, the murderer was captured alive! ”

Guo Hong entered the inner house and waited for a while, but the hall was still in chaos, and a group of people crowded around the crowd.

Soon the servant invited him in, and a middle-aged official sat in the center, and said: "I am Liu Zhongying, I heard from my family that it was thanks to the help of the refiner that the murderer was caught, and Liu is here to thank you!" ”

Guo Hong made a gesture and said, "It's a gesture." I don't know how the murdered Xiao Langjun is? ”

Liu Zhongying frowned and said, "The situation is not good. ”

Guo Hong said: "The trail is slightly through the art of Qi Huang, I don't know if you can take a look?" ”

Liu Zhongying nodded, he was also sick and rushed to the doctor, if his grandson died, his daughter would not survive.

He led Guo Hong into the inner hall, only to see a group of women surrounding him, a young man lying on the couch, and several people who looked like Lang Zhong frowned and were discussing in a whisper.

"Refiner please!" Liu Zhongying was in an urgent situation, and he didn't have time to be polite to Lang Zhong.

"Secretary Liu! I'm trying my best to save Xiao Langjun, or don't let irrelevant people mess around, otherwise who is responsible if something happens? Seeing this posture, a few Lang Zhong also understood it, and hurriedly stopped it.

Lang Zhong all looked at Guo Hong hostilely, and he didn't care.

It's not the same level of people.

He pushed with his hand, and the Lang Zhong who blocked the way all staggered back and fell to the ground.

Guo Hong was like waving away a few flies, and sat down next to the couch inadvertently, seeing that the young man was only about ten years old, his face was dark, and he knew that he was poisoned with a little pulse.

Guo Hong took out the antidote pill from the medicine bottle given by Zhao He and helped the boy up, but found that he was clenched and couldn't feed it at all.

The other party's breathing stopped, Guo Hong ran Wuxianggong and touched down from his neck, and soon found that something was blocked in his chest.

Turning the person over and waving his palm on his back, the young man spat out a bloody hard walnut, and then vomited out countless water.

The onlookers were amazed.

Guo Hong asked the maid to wait for the young man to take the antidote, and the other party's face quickly improved a lot, and he was saved.

"The alchemist is really a medical saint who has come back to life, saving my grandson's life, Liu is very grateful!" Liu Zhongying couldn't imagine that this Taoist priest would solve the problem so quickly, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Lang Zhong next to him hung his head and walked away quietly.

"You're welcome, I live in Shengpingfang, Secretary Liu takes care of my sister's family, and today's things are a little thin, so you don't have to worry about it."

To be polite, it was already the middle of the night, and Liu Zhongying also had a lot of things to deal with, so he sealed a box of gold and asked his family to send Guo Hong back to his residence, and said that he would come to the door the next day to thank him.

Guo Hong returned to the rented house, but found that there was no place to sleep by himself, his room was occupied by Zhao He, and Cao Shouzhen went to join Lu Zhizhen.

In the end, he could only squeeze in one place with Lu Yu.

Zhao He had a lot to ask, but it was already the third watch, and Lu Yu persuaded her to talk about it tomorrow, and she could only let Guo Hong go for the time being.

Early the next morning, Zhao He woke Guo Hong up.

"Senior Brother Guo, do you like me or not?" The girl was also in a hurry, and the senior brother was snatched away no matter how slowly she was.

Guo Hong was sleepy-eyed: "I don't know." ”

"I don't know what I mean! Where have you been for the past two days? ”

"I liked you at first, but you weren't very enthusiastic, and I was a little ...... A little bit of that, and then teamed up with Senior Sister Jiao to deal with Yizhen, I saved her, and she saved me, and then we got better. In the past two days, Senior Sister Jiao and I went to live with his father. ”

Zhao He was so angry that he cried, packed up his things and slammed the door crying.

Guo Hong didn't know what to do, so he could only watch from the side, looking at Lu Yu for help.

Lu Yu sighed and said, "It's okay for you to calm down separately, I'll accompany her to relax, and she may not come back in the next few days." ”

In the morning, Liu Zhongying came to the door to thank him and gave a lot of gifts.

Cao Shouzhen went to Qinrenfang Guo Congshi to inquire about the news, and came back to say that the third uncle wanted him to go, so Guo Hong came to Changxingfang.

After half an hour, he dressed up and became a seventeen or eighteen-year-old palace envoy, his appearance was very ordinary, his figure was not burly, he followed behind an old eunuch and quietly came out of the back door of Guo's mansion.

They passed through Chongyi and Wubenfang to the north, and they saw the city wall.

Walk west along the city walls to a palace gate.

The guard guarding the door checked the waist card and let the two enter.

Guo Hong saw that many merchants carrying burdens were also queuing up on the side, and after inspection, they entered the city one after another.

He looked at it twice, and was wondering, and the old eunuch who led the way said: "This is the imperial city, and the small vendors are delivering goods to the yamen of various government offices. ”

"Wang Neifu, please tell me about the situation in this imperial city."

The old eunuch is called Wang Shouqi, and his official position is the same as that of the internal government bureau, and the official position of the inner government bureau is the same as the nine products, and the external position of the official is the same as the regular member, which means that the supernumerary is equivalent to the official member.

Wang Shouqi's eldest brother is the famous eunuch Wang Shoucheng of the Muzong Dynasty, after Wang Shoucheng was given death, he was lucky not to be connected because of his humble official position, and now he has spent fifty-three years in the ban, and he is nearly seventy years old but only has a nine-rank official position, which can be said to be a lifetime.

Just listen to his introduction as he walks, the two of them passed through the Imperial City Shaofu Supervisor, Taifu Temple, the Southern Courtyard of the Ministry of Rites, the Dushui Supervisor, Shangshu Province, the East Palace Inner Fang, Zuo Raowei, etc., and then saw the moat, opposite the palace city

The city walls, ten meters high, are spectacular!

"Now the forbidden army only has enough soldiers and generals in the Jinwuwei and Shence Army, and Jinwuwei is responsible for guarding the Chang'an place, so only the Shence Army is the real strong army. There are only a small number of soldiers in the other left and right guards, left and right Rao guards, left and right Qianniu guards, left and right leading guards, left and right prison guards, and each leading house, and most of them are the general's pro-army guards. These generals are all idle and do not sit in the government in normal times. ”

Guo Hong instantly thought of Shi Xiong, he is the commander of the Shenwu Army, and he should also sit in the imperial city, I am afraid that it is also this kind of idle job, no wonder he does not go out to practice martial arts at home every day.

After crossing the bridge over the moat, we came to the Chongming Gate.

The city gate hole is very long, close to twenty meters!

Guo Hong followed Wang Shouqi into Chongming Gate, obviously feeling that the inspection here was more strict, because he was born and was asked a few more words.

"The guards are all the Divine Army." Wang Shouqi was far away from the city gate before he whispered.

On the opposite side is a small city with people coming and going.

"This is the Jiafu Gate of the East Palace, and now there is no prince, but there are various bureaucrats."

Here there are cities within cities, and there are walls everywhere.

Taiji Palace also has a city wall, and there is a horizontal street between the city wall where Chengtianmen is located, and many low-grade and non-grade eunuchs take this road.

Follow this road all the way to the west, and after passing through the Chengtian Gate, you will come to the Yeting Palace in the west.

The palace is very large, and the central part is where the palace maids live and the wives and daughters of the prisoners who did not enter the palace work, and there are also unfavored concubines who live here (the so-called cold palace).

To the north is Taicang, where a large amount of grain is stored for consumption in the palace.

The southeast is the province of the Inner Servants, with the eunuchs' envoys and yamen.

Taiji Palace is called Xinei, to the time of Tang Gaozong, the emperor has wind paralysis, feel that it is too humid here, so he vigorously built Daming Palace, and then moved over, this is more than 200 years.

Since the emperor lived in Dongnei (Daming Palace) all the year round, most of the eunuchs and civil officials such as Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province moved over.

Only a small number of people are left in the west to maintain, if the emperor is tired of living in Daming Palace, he may come over to play for two days, and the palace here will be opened.

Wang Shouqi is one of the few people left behind, and the Inner Government Bureau is one of the six bureaus of the Inner Servant Province, which is in charge of the cashier of the Inner Treasury and the supply of lamps and candles, Tang Mu, and Zhang Shi in the palace.

The Inner Government Bureau has two Positive Eight Rank Inner Government Bureau Orders, and two Ninth Rank Inner Government Bureau, and Wang Shouqi is one of the Nine Rank Inner Government Bureau, and is the third and fourth leader of the Inner Government Bureau.

The emperor and all the concubines lived in Daming Palace, and the other two Inner Government Bureau Commanders and one Inner Government Bureau Commander naturally had to go to serve, which was relatively busy. He, a marginal person, stayed here to retire.

There are also two Shuling Shi under the Inner Government Bureau, four scribes, four canons, and six canons.

Now there is only one Zhanggu and one warden who are left in Xinei, and there are dozens of white bodies without grades.

There are more than 4,000 eunuchs in the palace, only more than 1,000 have grades, and the remaining 3,000 are miscellaneous servants (white bodies).

Guo Hong is wearing miscellaneous clothes, and he is not very old, so it will not arouse suspicion, and everyone who sees it thinks that he is a new white body in the palace, and he doesn't care at all.

As long as there are people in the palace to guide them, even poor families can send their children into the palace.

But Wang Shouqi told Guo Hong that the power of the eunuchs was concentrated in the hands of several big families, and their original ancestors came from the wealthy families, such as Wang Shouqi's own Wang family is really the descendant of the Taiyuan Wang family, the flying dragon Yang Qinyi's ancestor is Hongnong Yang's, the left army lieutenant Ma Yuanzhen's ancestor is Fufeng Ma's, and Gao Lishi is a descendant of Mrs. Chen Guoxian of the Southern Dynasty......

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Historical figure: Wang Shouqi