After a while, when it was time for class, Dr. Gong Jiao entered the room, and Yang Fugong and Wang Yanzhen immediately returned to their seats to attend classes honestly.

Guo Jingshu whispered to Guo Hong: "This doctor's name is Yan Jishi, but he is amazing, Wang Dalang and Yang Wulang are not afraid of heaven and earth, and they also have a background, but they are obedient to his rule, I heard that he is called 'Xiao Yangyuji' in the palace, and he is a marksman!" ”

Children worship powerful people, Wang Yanzhen and Yang Fugong were suppressed by Yan Ji's practical real kung fu, so they were very obedient.

At the end of the morning, they had dinner, and in the afternoon they had a different doctorate.

The doctor of palace education belongs to the court bureau of the inner service province, and the official rank is from the nine grades, and he is in charge of teaching and learning palace people's calligraphy, arithmetic, and public arts.

The person who is lecturing now is Li Congjie.

He was about fifty years old, his face was wrinkled, he had no beard, and his body was neatly groomed.

"Today I still talk about the ...... of "University"

After a while, a young eunuch about twenty years old came to the door and beckoned.

Li Congjie frowned, but still stopped class and walked out.

Guo Jingshu ran to the window to eavesdrop, and Guo Hong also followed.

"This is Li Jingchao, his father is Li Congzheng, the inner servant bureau, less than seven grades, so Li Jingchao is not qualified to go to internal school, he is idle all day long, I heard that he is mixed with people outside the palace, and he doesn't know what he is doing!" Guo Jingshu muttered quietly.

Guo Hong felt a little familiar when he saw the visitor just now, but now he remembered it after being reminded.

This person is the palace envoy who went to Wannian County with Yu Zhongde to fight a lawsuit.

"What's his relationship with the doctor?"

"Li Jingchao's adoptive father, Li Congzhen, is the younger brother of our teacher Li Congjie."

"Well, you can guess by name!"

Both have a subordinate character in their names.

"That's not necessarily, the teacher is second, their eldest brother is called Li Zhongyi, he is the military envoy of Bianzhou, but he is dead!"

The two eavesdropped together, although the sound was absent, but Guo Hong practiced the internal skills of the Daomen, and his ear power was far stronger than ordinary people, so he still heard the content clearly.

Recently, Liu Jieyu in the palace has chosen attendants for the new prince to enter the palace, and the well-informed eunuch families have been spread all over.

This Li Jingyue came to ask the second uncle to come forward and help him say good things about the court order, and he also wanted to get this errand.

"Why don't you let your father come forward? I'm just a subordinate, I don't have such a big face! Li Congjie shook his head and said.

Li Jingchao salivated and said with a smile: "The second uncle helps, and the little nephew can't help it, my father has a headache for a case recently, and he is negotiating with Wannian County, and he also used the relationship between his cousin, so he can't be busy." ”

Li Congjie shook his head and said: "I just want to take away other people's property, even orphans and widows are not spared, and I am not afraid of retribution." ”

Most of the eunuchs in the palace believe in Buddhism and pray for the next life, and the theory of retribution is very popular.

"The little nephew is no longer involved in that matter, but I heard that there was a repetition, Yu Zhongde was killed, that person went to Jingzhao Mansion to surrender, it turned out to be Zhang Yanyuan's slave, and now several people have been sentenced to death, my father is now not up or down, and he visited Li Cong, the county commander of Wannian, and I don't know how it ended in the end."

Li Congjie nodded and said, "Your cousin Yu Zhongde is not a good thing, he died well!" The second uncle in the palace can only do his best, what is the intention of the bureau, how can I, an old man who teaches, figure it out clearly? ”

Li Congjie taught Li Jingchao a few more words, and then heard someone shouting: "Come and see the excitement, Song Shanggong wants to beat the palace maid's ass!" ”

The teenagers in the two houses suddenly ran out with a bang and rushed out of the courtyard together.

Li Congjie couldn't stop it, so he could only follow to see it, Li Jingchao also likes to watch the excitement, and rushed to the front early, afraid that he would be squeezed on the periphery if he went late.

Guo Hong was pulled by Guo Jingshu and ran away, and he was the first batch of teenagers to rush out.

He saw that there were already many people in the square outside the courtyard, and in the center were several women in gorgeous costumes.

The punished maid has been tied to a stool and lying face down.

This is the courtyard in front of the gate of the Ting Bureau, and generally all major events in the Pavilion Palace are carried out here, and the punishment of palace people here can also play a warning role.

The scale of the Yeting Palace is not small, equivalent to the three lifang places in the outer city, and tens of thousands of people have lived in it at most, just like a small city, but the identity of these people is a little special.

During the Kaiyuan period, there were more than 40,000 palace people, including palace maids and eunuchs.

Only high-grade eunuchs had the money to build private residences or sell mansions in the outer city, and low-grade eunuchs were crowded in the palace.

According to Tang law, female prisoners are not exiled alone, so Chang'an generally serves their sentences here, which is equivalent to a women's central prison.

Of course, there are also skills, such as weaving, embroidery, silkworm raising, and those who do not have any talent are punished to work as coolies in Sinong Temple, and if they can dance, burlesque, and music, they will change to the teaching workshop division, and be a teacher or a music household.

The current Empress Dowager Zheng once lived here as a criminal family, and was later selected by the Empress Dowager Guo to be a palace maid, so that she had the opportunity to meet Xianzong and give birth to Emperor Dazhong.

The southwest of the Yeting Palace is the Inner Servant Province, the Jiaku, and the Right Tibetan Library, and some low-grade eunuchs live near the Inner Servant Province.

Since Xuanzong, the total number of eunuchs has been growing, and there are about five or six thousand people at this time, of which half live in the Yeting Palace, and the rest live in the small children's shop on the side of the Daming Palace in the east.

There was a city wall between the Yeting Palace where the palace maid lived and the eunuch's area, and the city gate was opened, which was called Huizheng Gate.

Behind the Huizheng Gate is actually the harem in the usual sense, the residence of the concubines is further north, connected with the back garden of the Taiji Palace, there is a public art platform to teach the dance of the palace maids, and the show girls who are selected into the palace every year also live here, waiting for the emperor and the concubines to choose.

This is one of the most densely populated places in Chang'an!

The court bureau is in the south of the city wall, not far from the Hui Zheng Gate, next to it is the workshop where the palace maid and the family of the prisoner work, and behind it is the court prison, where there are people, there are disputes, the court prison is the place where the criminals in the palace and the female prisoners sent from outside the palace are held.

"Those with iron tongs around their necks are the prisoners of the Ting Prison, who are in charge of the rice and are called the maids."

Guo Hong followed Guo Jingshu's fingers and looked, only to see that there was indeed a group of women on the other side, dressed simply, with iron ring-shaped collars around their necks, protruding in front and riveted with big nails, and iron chains were strung in the holes, connected to the shackles of their hands.

"The one next to him is the overseer, who oversees the work of these women. I heard my father-in-law say that the prince of the inner temple once served as the supervisor of the court bureau. ”

Guo Hong felt that the name Wang Gongsu was a little familiar, and he seemed to have heard it somewhere. The inner temple is responsible for the important position of picketing the palace to prohibit lawlessness.

At this time, there were already three floors inside and three floors outside the court, and there were people standing all around.

Several women in fancy clothes in the middle saw that people were almost coming, and one of the leaders said, "Then let's start!" "She is Song Shanggong, her name is Song Yiwen, she is the descendant of Song Zhiwen, the granddaughter of Song Ji, and her aunt and grandmother are the five daughters of the famous Song family, among which Song Ruozhao and Song Ruoxian have served as Shanggong and served as the emperor's secretary.

Song Yiwen's aunt and grandmother Song Ruozhao was named Mrs. Liang Guo, experienced the emperor of the Six Dynasties, when all the concubines, princes, and princesses were her students, which had a great influence, and died of illness in Daming Palace in the second year of Taihe, Wenzong recruited her sister Song Ruoxian into the palace to take over the position of Shang Palace.

Fourteen years ago, Zheng Zhu and Li Xunjin slandered that Wenzong gave Song Ruoxian to death, and the clansmen were exiled to Lingnan.

After the change of manna, Emperor Wenzong woke up and regretted it very much, so he recruited Song Yiwen into the palace to make amends.

Song Yiwen also relied on his own efforts to slowly rise to the position of Shanggong.

What is to be punished today is Liu Jieyu's maid, which is related to the violent death of the little envoy.

There are six bureaus and twenty-four divisions in the palace, headed by the Shang Palace Bureau, led by the Wupin Shang Palace, and the female official is not the emperor's woman, but can only be regarded as the female servant invited by the royal family.

There are two permanent Shanggong people in the Shanggong Bureau, and there are four divisions under it: Si Yan, Si Shu, Si Zheng, and Si Yan.

Among them, the two clerks are both positive six products, in charge of the names of the palace people above the female history and the rewards of grain and rice, and the female history is under the management of the court bureau.

The female history is a basic member of the 24th Division, and the official character is outside the ninth grade, and it is not in the stream. Gu Kaizhi has the famous "Female History Atlas", and the grades that did not enter the stream in the Tang Dynasty were also very fine, from the first outside the stream to the ninth outside the stream, which was equivalent to the small officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Song Shanggong is equivalent to one of the two female housekeepers in the palace, and she is very powerful.

She is only thirty years old, she looks very quiet, with a hood on her head, wearing a female official uniform, dressed like a man, but she is convex and backward, which has a unique charm.

Song Yiwen entered the palace fourteen years ago, and just became a Shang Palace last month, which is the time to establish his authority.

It happened that something happened in Liu Jieyu's palace, and it went to the emperor, and the Son of Heaven ordered a thorough investigation.

Song Yiwen took down the maid Chu Yan beside Liu Jieyu in detail, and now he is going to torture him in public, and ask about the details and the same party!

This is also for all the palace people in the Yeting Palace.

"Chu Yan, don't move quickly, so as not to suffer from this flesh and skin!" The clerk next to him, Chen, said.

The first goose was tied face down on a stool, her clothes stripped off of her back, and a woman next to her grabbed her hair in a bun and threw her head up.

"I'm wronged!"

"Dare to be hard-mouthed, fight!"

The two palace people began to whip Chu Yan's back with rattans, and she let out a terrible scream.

"What are you afraid of, this is light, if you are like Li Ye, you will be beaten with a big wooden stick, and the last blow to the head will make your brains come out!" Guo Jingshu watched it with relish, and when he found Guo Hong's strangeness, he muttered in his ear.

Guo Hong asked in a low voice: "This palace maid has been shouting grievances, is there really a hidden secret?" ”

Guo Jingshu looked left and right, and saw that the attention of the people next to him was on Chu Yan, so he whispered: "I heard my father-in-law say that this incident involves the second prince born to Liu Jieyu.

"Liu Jieyu is the daughter of Liu Zhongying, the second prince lives in Liufu, and it will be the saint's birthday in a few days, Liu Jieyu wants to take the prince into the palace, and the little envoy who does not want to send it is poisoned, and he pushed the prince into the water, and was caught by a Taoist priest when he escaped, and later the Taoist priest revived the second prince."

Guo Hong knew that he was talking about himself, so he didn't make a sound.

Guo Jingshu continued: "This little envoy was escorted into the palace, Liu Jieyu asked Chu Yan to question, and then the little envoy died!" ”