Guo Hong jumped from a white body to an eight-rank official, which can be said to be a leapfrog promotion.

This is already the limit, and the emperor can't completely follow the rules, otherwise the criticism in the palace will be too great, and it will not be good for the people who are promoted.

Of course, if this person has been favored, the speed of promotion in the future will be much faster than ordinary people.

Chapter Seventy-Three: Huichang Palace

Guo Hong jumped from a white body to an eight-rank official, which can be said to be a leapfrog promotion.

This is already the limit, and the emperor can't completely follow the rules, otherwise the criticism in the palace will be too great, and it will not be good for the people who are promoted.

Of course, if this person has been favored, the speed of promotion in the future will be much faster than ordinary people.

In the late Tang Dynasty, whether it was the southern government of the scholar or the northern officialdom of the eunuch, there was already a set of fixed models for promotion, and if it was violated, it would be counterattacked.

The eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty generally did not follow the official rank, and gave them the equivalent treatment by giving green, scarlet, and purple.

Filling the internal care is to enter the inner nursing home, and the inner nursing home manages the low-grade and white-bodied eunuchs who walk in front of the palace, and the women's hospital and the high-grade hospital are collectively called the three hospitals, and the high-grade hospital manages the eunuchs above the fifth grade.

"Except" means to grant. If the official is demoted, it is called "moving", and it is also called moving to the left.

After the emperor finished speaking, he turned back to Liu Jieyu and said, "Jieyu, don't blame me for taking people's favors." ”

Liu Jieyu Wanfu said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, this Li Jingchao showed Ding Jia Fugue last time, and now he is auspicious, it can be said that he is a lucky general!" ”

The emperor listened and looked at Guo Hong carefully, and also said: "Jieyu reminded me, this kid is indeed a little strange, it is better to send it to the three sects to give a lecture, let him talk to those monks, maybe there are some strange things I don't know?" ”

Liu Jieyu hurriedly pulled Guo Hong and asked him to kneel down and thank him.

When the emperor left, the concubines dispersed.

Guo Hong and the others returned to the Guizhen Courtyard, and Liu Jieyu advised: "Jing Chao, tomorrow is the meeting day of the three religions, don't talk too much when you go, those monks are all good at speaking, with the ability of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, and they are the best at finding loopholes in people's words, not something that you can deal with as a child." ”

Guo Hong nodded and was taught.

Li Wei said: "Li Jingchao, you have to teach me to ride a horse and play ball!" ”

"Good ......"

Guo Hong remembered something and asked: "Jieyu, that Concubine Zhao De is so arrogant, and the emperor still asked her to manage the harem, not afraid of the restlessness of the house?" ”

Liu Jieyu smiled bitterly: "The Zhao family is the concubine of the saint, we share weal and autumn together, the relationship is not comparable to ours, she is from a poor family, she likes to be careful, the pattern is a little small, and it is easy to hold grudges, I try to avoid her now." ”

At this time, the evening ingreale came in and asked to see Song Shanggong, and Guo Hong hurriedly stood aside and served.

Liu Jieyu and Song Yiwen sat down separately.

Song Yiwen said: "This time I came to report Chu Yan's confession to Jieyu. ”

"She's hired?"

Song Yiwen nodded and said, "She said that she was instructed by Concubine Zhao De, and the other party threatened her parents and brothers. ”

Liu Jieyu slapped the case and said angrily: "This is still making excuses? ”

Song Yiwen said: "Now that Concubine De is powerful, we don't dare to act rashly, this matter has not been reported to Your Majesty, what does Liu Jieyu think should be done?" ”

"Even if I testify, I'm afraid that I won't be able to shake the relationship between Thirteen Lang and his wife, so I'll dispose of Chu Yan."

Song Yiwen shook his head and said: "I thought I still had to let Your Majesty know that the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in the anthill, and the bad feeling was accumulated little by little, Li Wei is the prince after all, and everyone has a lover of licking calves." ”

"What do you say?"

"We must find a way to let the emperor hear Chu Yan's confession!"

Sent Song Yiwen away, Guo Hong and Li Wei went back to the room, he waited until the other party fell asleep, and then tiptoed outside the hall, today is not the full moon, Liu Jieyu did not come out to worship the moon.

He sat on the steps and fiddled with the box found in Shangguan Wan'er's old house.

"What's wrong?" Guo Hong muttered to himself, frowning in contemplation.

He knocked it carefully, but he didn't find the hollow sound of the mezzanine, then again, if there is a mezzanine, I'm afraid I can't wait now, Liu Youqiu has already found out back then, and that guy is also an extremely smart person.

The cushion under the box was removed, and there was no problem.

Guo Hong couldn't figure it out for a while, but he believed in his own feelings, there must be something wrong with this box.

He stared at the Luban lock on the box, this one had been cracked, and there was really nothing special about it.

Guo Hong suddenly remembered the Luban lock graphics he saw from ancient books, which were all three-dimensional, and he had never seen this kind of flat play.

Could there be some connection between this?

He seemed to have grasped a little idea, and pressed a few times on the Luban lock on that plane, but there was no movement.

"That doesn't seem to be the case......"

He restored the box to its original state, closed the lid, and easily restored the Luban lock to the way it was when he first saw it.

"That's not right! I was blindfolded by Shangguan Wan'er, this is actually not a flat toggle lock! ”

Guo Hong inadvertently pressed his fingers, making a slight rattling sound, and he suddenly woke up.

This is where the confusion of this box is here, and the box can also be opened by flipping it on a flat surface, so that people naturally ignore the mechanism of pressing!

This is actually a traditional Luban lock!

Guo Hong thought for a moment, pressed it, and a small piece of wood bulged up on the side of the box, he looked at the texture carefully in the moonlight, and pressed a few more places, and finally twisted a piece from it and pulled it out, with a bang, and the wooden blocks of various shapes scattered to the ground.

Guo Hong flicked it with his hand, and soon found that each piece of wood seemed to be patterned, he patiently spelled out a small piece, and said softly:

"Qianling Secret Road!"

Zhaoling is the joint burial tomb of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, Guo Hong knows that he is the adopted son of Tang Wuzong, and he has no thoughts about opening the Li family's mausoleum.

But he still put the whole picture together, then rubbed it with silk cloth and hid it, and then destroyed the wooden box.

However, there is no title for the secret passage diagram he rubbed, so even if someone else gets it, they won't know what it is!

The next day, Li Wei got up but didn't find Guo Hong, so he went to find Liu Jieyu in a daze.

"Mother, where did Li Jingchao go?"

Liu Jieyu smiled slightly and said, "Isn't he right behind you?" ”

Li Wei looked back and saw a young man in Tsing Yi standing silently with his chest crossed.

"It's a new robe!"

"It's a green robe from a saint." Liu Jieyu said with a smile. "Do you think it looks good?"

Li Wei said: "Naturally, he looks good, he looks good in anything!" ”

He circled around Guo Hong and said, "Are you going to give a lecture on the three sects?" I want to go too! ”

"The saint has to go to the morning pilgrimage, and the lectures of the three religions are arranged in the afternoon, you can go out to play for a while in the morning, and don't forget to come back for lunch."

Guo Hong tried new clothes, so he changed them down, still wearing the old robes, and left with Li Wei.

"Big brother asked me to go to the Forbidden Garden to play, let's go."

Guo Hong heard that it was Li Wen who made an appointment, so he put his mind at ease, and the two went north out of the Taiji Palace, passed through the West Inner Garden, and entered the Forbidden Garden.

The East Inner Garden and the West Inner Garden are collectively called the Inner Garden, which is under the jurisdiction of the Inner Garden Envoy, so the Inner Garden Envoy is also called the Inner Garden Envoy.

Now the privy envoy Wang Yuanyou led the inner garden envoy himself, and set up a new inner garden planting envoy, so that his adopted son Wang Jufang served as the envoy.

Guo Hong passed by the West Inner Garden and saw from a distance that Wang Jufang was directing his men to transplant trees.

The new envoy wanted to behave and make some achievements, so that his adoptive father could speak for him in front of the emperor.

The Forbidden Garden originally included the Inner Garden, but it is now managed separately.

This side is twenty-seven miles long from east to west, twenty-three miles wide from north to south, including all the land from the north of Chang'an to Weishui, there are willow orchards, vineyards, peach orchards, pear orchards, tiger orchards, etc., as well as countless buildings and palaces, and Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty is also covered.

As a royal garden, civilians are not allowed to come here.

There is a moat between the north of Chang'an City and Taiji Palace and Daming Palace, and the bridge on the river is called the Lower Horse Bridge, also called the Twisted Head Bridge, which means that the hundred officials come here to get off the horse, and the people come here to turn back!

Since they were about to be in the Tiger Garden, the palace sent a carriage to send them over. Along the way, Li Xiao lifted the curtain and looked around, looking left and right, and felt that everything was novel.

He was the first time he had entered the Forbidden Garden.

Guo Hong felt a little familiar, he remembered coming here and was deeply impressed.

When I arrived at the Tiger Park, this feeling became even stronger.

Li Xiao and the others waited for a while, but they didn't see Li Wen, but they waited for a small envoy and said: "The king has an urgent matter today, and he can't come over, so let the slave and maid come to report it, and say that he is guilty in his heart, and he will apologize another day." ”

Li Wei pouted and was unhappy, and the supervisor in charge of the reception said: "The envoy of the five squares has ordered, and the second prince can enter the tiger garden to play by himself." ”

The Tiger Garden is under the management of the Wufang Palace.

At the beginning of its establishment, the Inner Servant Province assisted the Empress in managing the harem, the Dianzhong Province was responsible for the emperor's daily life, medicine and diet, the Yulin Army was responsible for the escort work, and the Forbidden Garden was managed by another special person, which was the origin of the envoys of the Five Fangs and the Inner Garden.

Li Xiao was overjoyed when he heard this, and pulled Guo Hong to go inside.

The supervisor leads the way, and at the same time introduces the rare birds and beasts that have been paid tribute from various countries.

There are tigers, leopards, wild boars, giant elephants, and a long-necked giant beast known as the unicorn, which Guo Hong recognizes as a giraffe.

All kinds of animals are kept in a wooden fence-off clearing, and tigers and the like have leather chains around their necks to prevent escape.

Guo Hong saw that this prisoner was getting more and more remote, and he was secretly vigilant in his heart.

They entered a portal, which was a hall with a plaque that read "Huichang Hall".

The hall is very empty, there is an ancient tree in the center of the courtyard, such as a pavilion and a cover, and there are huge strange stones piled up next to it.

Guo Hong looked at the throne in the middle of the main hall, and his heart was sour for no reason, and tears fell.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Wei asked.

Guo Hong was silent, he came to the throne and reached out to touch the armrest of the seat.

At this moment, there was a creaking sound of the door closing behind him!

Li Wei exclaimed: "There is a big snake! Prisoner! Where did the prisoners go?! They shut the door! ”

Guo Hong didn't have to look back, he also knew that this was a trap.

Huichang Hall is the place where Wu Zong took him to watch the strange beasts back then!

There are also white Jiao here, and there are three.

The adoptive father held him in his arms at that time and patiently explained the beast brought by the eunuchs below.

"Daddy, what's in the tree?"

"That's a white Jiao, with infinite strength, and can swallow a lion and tiger alive."

"I'm afraid ......"

"Erlang, don't be afraid, these are all domesticated with medicinal bait, and they won't hurt people."

Wu Zong lifted him above his head and put it around his neck, then walked to the edge of the tree and asked his son to touch Bai Jiao's outstretched tongue.

"Look, that's the bait."

Wu Zong pointed to the things on the tray in the eunuch's hand.

"It doesn't smell good."

"But Bai Jiao likes it."

"I want to know how."

The adoptive father really asked people to demonstrate the dispensing in front of him, and he also tried to mix it himself, and the father and son worked together, making them dirty, and finally evolved into smearing each other's medicinal mud, and then laughing at each other.

It was his happiest time.

And Guo Hong knew that from entering the palace at the age of eight to leaving at the age of twelve, he was the most beloved person by his adoptive father, and he was the only one who could ride on Wuzong's neck.

All the things in the past surfaced in front of him one by one, and he endured his sadness, but now the important thing is how to save his life and Li Wei's life!

The three white dragons had come down from the tree and swam towards them, and they were already close at hand!

"Come here!" Guo Hong grabbed Li Wei and made it to the throne together.

His father's deep voice sounded in his ears: "Son, remember that this handrail is a mechanism, when you grow up, if you encounter danger, you can open the secret passage and escape outside!" ”

Guo Hong shouted: "Close your eyes! ”

Li Xiao couldn't help but close his eyes.

Guo Hong pressed the faucet, gently called "Daddy", moved the armrest, the seat suddenly flipped back, and he and Li Wei fell backwards together.